multilingual-e5-base vs nomic-embed-text-v2-moe
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| 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
nomic-embed-text-v2-moe · fp16
2.7 GB / 24 GB