nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs e5-base
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | nomic-embed-text-v1.5 | e5-base |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 140 M | 110 M |
| Architecture | NomicBertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 2,048 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 15,688,935 | 989,584 |
| Downloads all time | 132.5 M | 6.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 57.966 | 64.296 |
| MTEB BIOSSES (reported) | 84.563975040309 | 84.133844757571 |
| MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P (reported) | 45.690695678511 | 44.569330665364 |
| MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S (reported) | 36.351854909763 | 40.476477461652 |
| MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P (reported) | 38.770253446401 | 36.186054465887 |
| MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S (reported) | 32.943070954973 | 32.723791301819 |
| MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions (reported) | 76.060326254232 | 72.952556830673 |
| MTEB Banking77Classification (reported) | 84.178722808926 | 83.320374850505 |
| MTEB CQADupstackAndroidRetrieval (reported) | 32.164 | 30.659 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 91.804263016433 | 87.941483778274 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 46.593296422632 | 42.230574673549 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 69.355865658579 | 73.894744076932 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-02-10 | 2022-12-26 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
15.7 M990 K
nomic-embed-text-v1.5
e5-base
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
e5-base · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB