all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs nomic-embed-text-v2-moe

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

sentence-transformers · A
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
257.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nomic-ai · B
Params
480 M
Context
30d
1.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 nomic-embed-text-v2-moe
Parameters 20 M 480 M
Architecture BertModel NomicBertModel
Context length 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 101
Downloads 30d 257,806,986 1,532,855
Downloads all time 3.5 B 13.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2025-02-07

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

259.6 M1.5 M
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 nomic-embed-text-v2-moe

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

all-MiniLM-L6-v2 · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
nomic-embed-text-v2-moe · fp16 2.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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