bge-small-en-v1.5 vs all-MiniLM-L6-v2

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

BAAI · A
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
64.5 M
mit · commercial OK
Xenova · B
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
3.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-small-en-v1.5 all-MiniLM-L6-v2
Parameters 30 M 20 M
Architecture BertModel BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 64,503,106 2,950,312
Downloads all time 464.1 M 27.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2023-05-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

74.3 M2.4 M
bge-small-en-v1.5 all-MiniLM-L6-v2

VRAM side by side

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

bge-small-en-v1.5 · fp16 0.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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