granite-embedding-small-english-r2 vs jina-embeddings-v2-small-en

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

ibm-granite · A
Params
50 M
Context
8,192
30d
6.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
jinaai · B
Params
30 M
Context
8,192
30d
862 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-embedding-small-english-r2 jina-embeddings-v2-small-en
Parameters 50 M 30 M
Architecture ModernBertModel JinaBertForMaskedLM
Context length 8,192 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 6,277,600 861,976
Downloads all time 24.3 M 19.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-07-17 2023-09-27

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

6.4 M838 K
granite-embedding-small-english-r2 jina-embeddings-v2-small-en

VRAM side by side

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

granite-embedding-small-english-r2 · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
jina-embeddings-v2-small-en · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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