bge-m3 vs nomic-embed-text-v2-moe

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

BAAI · A
Params
Context
8,192
30d
37.6 M
mit · commercial OK
nomic-ai · B
Params
480 M
Context
30d
1.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 nomic-embed-text-v2-moe
Parameters 480 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel NomicBertModel
Context length 8,192
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 101
Downloads 30d 37,633,121 1,667,578
Downloads all time 310.2 M 16.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2025-02-07

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

38.2 M1.1 M
bge-m3 nomic-embed-text-v2-moe

VRAM side by side

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

nomic-embed-text-v2-moe · fp16 2.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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