bge-m3 vs paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
sentence-transformers · B · Open weights
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
1.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-m3 | paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | — | 20 M |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 8,192 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 29,564,329 | 1,511,515 |
| Downloads all time | 362.4 M | 164.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | — | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-01-27 | 2022-03-02 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
38.2 M1.3 M
bge-m3
paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2 · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB