nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1

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

nomic-ai · A
Params
140 M
Context
2,048
30d
15.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B
Params
130 M
Context
512
30d
1.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification nomic-embed-text-v1.5 distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1
Parameters 140 M 130 M
Architecture NomicBertModel DistilBertModel
Context length 2,048 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 14
Downloads 30d 15,688,935 1,012,092
Downloads all time 132.5 M 25.1 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

15.7 M1.0 M
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-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
distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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