all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs snowflake-arctic-embed-l
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
sentence-transformers · A
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
252.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | all-MiniLM-L6-v2 | snowflake-arctic-embed-l |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 20 M | 334 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 252,170,882 | 480,165 |
| Downloads all time | 3.9 B | 2.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2024-04-12 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
259.7 M430 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2
snowflake-arctic-embed-l
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB
snowflake-arctic-embed-l · fp16
2.0 GB / 24 GB