all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs bge-small-en
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | all-MiniLM-L6-v2 | bge-small-en |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | — | 30 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 2,885,743 | 1,570,547 |
| Downloads all time | 23.6 M | 16.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | — | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-05-02 | 2023-08-05 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
2.9 M1.6 M
all-MiniLM-L6-v2
bge-small-en
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-small-en · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB