all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs bge-small-en-v1.5
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
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | all-MiniLM-L6-v2 | bge-small-en-v1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 20 M | 33 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,506,671 | 470,318 |
| Downloads all time | 35.7 M | 1.4 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | — | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-05-02 | 2026-06-01 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
4.6 M361 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2
bge-small-en-v1.5
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-small-en-v1.5 · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB