mxbai-embed-large-v1 vs specter2_base

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

mixedbread-ai · A
Params
340 M
Context
512
30d
4.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
allenai · B
Params
Context
512
30d
873 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification mxbai-embed-large-v1 specter2_base
Parameters 340 M
Architecture BertModel BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 4,888,095 872,916
Downloads all time 89.8 M 9.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-03-07 2023-02-16

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

5.1 M871 K
mxbai-embed-large-v1 specter2_base

VRAM side by side

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

mxbai-embed-large-v1 · fp16 1.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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