granite-embedding-small-english-r2 vs wavlm-large

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
microsoft · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
—
30d
1.4 M

Specification comparison

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Specification granite-embedding-small-english-r2 wavlm-large
Parameters 50 M —
Architecture ModernBertModel WavLMModel
Context length 8,192 —
Licence apache-2.0 —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 6,856,446 1,352,896
Downloads all time 34.9 M 21.8 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

6.9 M390 K
granite-embedding-small-english-r2 wavlm-large

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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