all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs jina-embeddings-v2-small-en
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| 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 | 3,020,634 | 861,976 |
| Downloads all time | 28.1 M | 19.8 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 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
3.0 M838 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