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

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

sentence-transformers · A
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
25.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Snowflake · B
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
584 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-mpnet-base-v2 snowflake-arctic-embed-s
Parameters 110 M 30 M
Architecture MPNetForMaskedLM BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 25,182,791 583,556
Downloads all time 1.3 B 2.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2024-04-12

Download trend

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

28.0 M575 K
all-mpnet-base-v2 snowflake-arctic-embed-s

VRAM side by side

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

snowflake-arctic-embed-s · fp16 0.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
all-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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