granite-embedding-small-english-r2 vs wavlm-base-plus

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
microsoft · B
Params
Context
30d
944 K

Specification comparison

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Specification granite-embedding-small-english-r2 wavlm-base-plus
Parameters 50 M
Architecture ModernBertModel WavLMModel
Context length 8,192
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 6,277,600 944,395
Downloads all time 24.3 M 23.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-07-17 2022-03-02

Download trend

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

6.4 M510 K
granite-embedding-small-english-r2 wavlm-base-plus

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

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