granite-embedding-small-english-r2 vs all-MiniLM-L6-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
ibm-granite · A
Params
50 M
Context
8,192
30d
3.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-embedding-small-english-r2 | all-MiniLM-L6-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 50 M | — |
| Architecture | ModernBertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 8,192 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 3,769,426 | 2,885,743 |
| Downloads all time | 14.8 M | 23.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-07-17 | 2023-05-02 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
3.8 M2.8 M
granite-embedding-small-english-r2
all-MiniLM-L6-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
granite-embedding-small-english-r2 · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB