bge-m3 vs nomic-embed-text-v1.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
—
Context
8,192
30d
29.6 M
mit · commercial OK
nomic-ai · B · Open weights
Params
140 M
Context
2,048
30d
11.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 nomic-embed-text-v1.5
Parameters — 140 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel NomicBertModel
Context length 8,192 2,048
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 29,564,329 11,931,543
Downloads all time 362.4 M 178.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2024-02-10

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

38.2 M11.7 M
bge-m3 nomic-embed-text-v1.5

VRAM side by side

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

nomic-embed-text-v1.5 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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