nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs all_miniLM_L6_v2_with_attentions

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

nomic-ai · A · Open weights
Params
140 M
Context
2,048
30d
12.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qdrant · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
512
30d
753 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification nomic-embed-text-v1.5 all_miniLM_L6_v2_with_attentions
Parameters 140 M —
Architecture NomicBertModel BertModel
Context length 2,048 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 12,422,865 753,166
Downloads all time 170.9 M 7.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS —
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-10 2024-05-09

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

16.6 M450 K
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 all_miniLM_L6_v2_with_attentions

VRAM side by side

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

nomic-embed-text-v1.5 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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