all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs jina-embeddings-v2-small-en

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
jinaai · B · Open weights
Params
30 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 jina-embeddings-v2-small-en
Parameters 20 M 30 M
Architecture BertModel JinaBertForMaskedLM
Context length 512 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 4,506,671 1,286,466
Downloads all time 35.7 M 21.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-05-02 2023-09-27

Download trend

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

4.6 M798 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 jina-embeddings-v2-small-en

VRAM side by side

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

jina-embeddings-v2-small-en · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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