nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | nomic-embed-text-v1.5 | bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 140 M | 110 M |
| Architecture | NomicBertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 2,048 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 14,708,283 | 4,206,919 |
| Downloads all time | 156.2 M | 13.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-02-10 | 2025-01-09 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)
16.6 M779 K
nomic-embed-text-v1.5
bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB
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