multilingual-e5-small vs nomic-embed-text-v1.5
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | nomic-embed-text-v1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 140 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | NomicBertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 2,048 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 12,263,238 | 14,708,283 |
| Downloads all time | 114.0 M | 156.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 19.061 | 57.966 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 88.655562950325 | 91.804263016433 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 43.731873486542 | 46.593296422632 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 67.954536791031 | 69.355865658579 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2024-02-10 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)
16.6 M11.3 M
multilingual-e5-small
nomic-embed-text-v1.5
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB