granite-embedding-small-english-r2 vs efficient-splade-VI-BT-large-doc

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

ibm-granite · A · Open weights
Params
50 M
Context
8,192
30d
6.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
naver · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
512
30d
427 K
cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 · non-commercial

Specification comparison

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Specification granite-embedding-small-english-r2 efficient-splade-VI-BT-large-doc
Parameters 50 M —
Architecture ModernBertModel DistilBertForMaskedLM
Context length 8,192 512
Licence apache-2.0 cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Commercial use Allowed Not allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 6,856,446 426,676
Downloads all time 34.9 M 4.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-07-17 2022-07-05

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

6.9 M384 K
granite-embedding-small-english-r2 efficient-splade-VI-BT-large-doc

VRAM side by side

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

efficient-splade-VI-BT-large-doc · fp16 0.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
granite-embedding-small-english-r2 · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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