nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs all-roberta-large-v1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

nomic-ai · A · Open weights
Params
140 M
Context
2,048
30d
11.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B · Open weights
Params
360 M
Context
512
30d
612 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification nomic-embed-text-v1.5 all-roberta-large-v1
Parameters 140 M 360 M
Architecture NomicBertModel RobertaForMaskedLM
Context length 2,048 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 11,931,543 612,115
Downloads all time 178.2 M 27.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-10 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

16.6 M564 K
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 all-roberta-large-v1

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
all-roberta-large-v1 · fp16 2.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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