multilingual-e5-base vs nomic-embed-text-v2-moe

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

intfloat · A
Params
280 M
Context
512
30d
7.6 M
mit · commercial OK
nomic-ai · B
Params
480 M
Context
30d
1.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification multilingual-e5-base nomic-embed-text-v2-moe
Parameters 280 M 480 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel NomicBertModel
Context length 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 94 101
Downloads 30d 7,570,279 1,667,578
Downloads all time 65.4 M 16.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-05-19 2025-02-07

Download trend

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

7.6 M1.1 M
multilingual-e5-base nomic-embed-text-v2-moe

VRAM side by side

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

multilingual-e5-base · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
nomic-embed-text-v2-moe · fp16 2.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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