all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs Qwen3-Embedding-4B-W4A16-G128

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

Xenova · A
Params
Context
512
30d
2.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
boboliu · B
Params
4.1 B
Context
40,960
30d
532 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 Qwen3-Embedding-4B-W4A16-G128
Parameters 4.1 B
Architecture BertModel Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 512 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 2,885,743 532,142
Downloads all time 23.6 M 1.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-05-02 2025-06-06

Download trend

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

2.9 M532 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 Qwen3-Embedding-4B-W4A16-G128

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-Embedding-4B-W4A16-G128 · fp16 4.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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