granite-embedding-small-english-r2 vs SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext

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
cambridgeltl · B · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
1.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-embedding-small-english-r2 SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext
Parameters 50 M 110 M
Architecture ModernBertModel BertModel
Context length 8,192 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 6,856,446 1,415,163
Downloads all time 34.9 M 57.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-07-17 2022-03-02

Download trend

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

6.9 M1.4 M
granite-embedding-small-english-r2 SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext

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
SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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