bge-m3 vs Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16

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

BAAI · A
Params
Context
8,192
30d
35.0 M
mit · commercial OK
nvidia · B
Params
1.1 B
Context
262,144
30d
456 K

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16
Parameters 1.1 B
Architecture XLMRobertaModel Ministral3Model
Context length 8,192 262,144
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 34
Downloads 30d 34,991,851 455,847
Downloads all time 250.3 M 457 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2026-07-14

Download trend

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

35.5 M446 K
bge-m3 Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16

VRAM side by side

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

Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 8.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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