all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

sentence-transformers · A · Open weights
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
177.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B · Open weights
Params
280 M
Context
512
30d
9.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2
Parameters 20 M 280 M
Architecture BertModel XLMRobertaModel
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 50
Downloads 30d 177,602,109 9,113,974
Downloads all time 4.2 B 149.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

259.7 M8.6 M
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2

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
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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