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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

BAAI · A
Params
Context
8,192
30d
38.0 M
mit · commercial OK
nomic-ai · B
Params
140 M
Context
2,048
30d
14.7 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 38,045,991 14,708,283
Downloads all time 309.1 M 156.2 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 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

38.2 M14.6 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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