all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs llama-nemotron-embed-1b-v2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Xenova · A
Params
Context
512
30d
2.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B
Params
1.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
828 K

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 llama-nemotron-embed-1b-v2
Parameters 1.2 B
Architecture BertModel LlamaBidirectionalModel
Context length 512 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,885,743 827,762
Downloads all time 23.6 M 3.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-05-02 2025-10-16

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

2.9 M791 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 llama-nemotron-embed-1b-v2

VRAM side by side

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

llama-nemotron-embed-1b-v2 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 6.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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