bge-m3 vs snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

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

BAAI · A
Params
Context
8,192
30d
35.0 M
mit · commercial OK
Snowflake · B
Params
570 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0
Parameters 570 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel XLMRobertaModel
Context length 8,192 8,192
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 74
Downloads 30d 34,991,851 1,440,936
Downloads all time 250.3 M 12.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2024-11-08

Download trend

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

35.5 M1.4 M
bge-m3 snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

VRAM side by side

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

snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 · fp16 3.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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