nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs e5-large-v2
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-large-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 140 M | 340 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 | 2,564,065 |
| Downloads all time | 132.5 M | 41.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 57.966 | 58.321 |
| MTEB BIOSSES (reported) | 84.563975040309 | 82.732608010164 |
| MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P (reported) | 45.690695678511 | 45.546499570522 |
| MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S (reported) | 36.351854909763 | 41.016074899436 |
| MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P (reported) | 38.770253446401 | 37.36272554012 |
| MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S (reported) | 32.943070954973 | 34.849509608178 |
| MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions (reported) | 76.060326254232 | 72.751066262147 |
| MTEB Banking77Classification (reported) | 84.178722808926 | 84.495825309289 |
| MTEB CQADupstackAndroidRetrieval (reported) | 32.164 | 31.503 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 91.804263016433 | 93.738958742822 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 46.593296422632 | 47.611573458984 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 69.355865658579 | 73.278113035221 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-02-10 | 2023-05-19 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
15.7 M2.6 M
nomic-embed-text-v1.5
e5-large-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB
e5-large-v2 · fp16
2.0 GB / 24 GB