all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs 1

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

Xenova · A · Open weights
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
4.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
unslothai · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
2,048
30d
963 K

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 1
Parameters 20 M —
Architecture BertModel LlamaModel
Context length 512 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,506,671 962,923
Downloads all time 35.7 M 84.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-05-02 2024-07-14

Download trend

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

4.6 M906 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 1

VRAM side by side

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

1 · fp16 0.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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