all-mpnet-base-v2 vs snowflake-arctic-embed-m

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

sentence-transformers · A · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
17.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Snowflake · B · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
371 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-mpnet-base-v2 snowflake-arctic-embed-m
Parameters 110 M 110 M
Architecture MPNetForMaskedLM BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 17,881,048 370,553
Downloads all time 1.4 B 11.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2024-04-11

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

28.0 M371 K
all-mpnet-base-v2 snowflake-arctic-embed-m

VRAM side by side

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

all-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
snowflake-arctic-embed-m · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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