all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs pplx-embed-v1-0.6b

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

Xenova · A
Params
Context
512
30d
2.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
perplexity-ai · B
Params
600 M
Context
32,768
30d
461 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 pplx-embed-v1-0.6b
Parameters 600 M
Architecture BertModel PPLXQwen3Model
Context length 512 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,885,743 460,968
Downloads all time 23.6 M 2.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-05-02 2026-01-14

Download trend

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

2.9 M461 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 pplx-embed-v1-0.6b

VRAM side by side

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

pplx-embed-v1-0.6b · fp16 3.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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