all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs canine-c

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 11 September 2026.

Xenova · A · Open weights
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
4.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
google · B · Open weights
Params
130 M
Context
16,384
30d
439 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 canine-c
Parameters 20 M 130 M
Architecture BertModel CanineModel
Context length 512 16,384
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 104
Downloads 30d 4,388,485 439,215
Downloads all time 33.1 M 16.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-05-02 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

4.5 M439 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 canine-c

VRAM side by side

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

canine-c · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

Adjacent comparisons