nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs embeddinggemma-300m

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
google · B · Open weights
Params
300 M
Context
—
30d
1.2 M
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification nomic-embed-text-v1.5 embeddinggemma-300m
Parameters 140 M 300 M
Architecture NomicBertModel Gemma3TextModel
Context length 2,048 —
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 11,931,543 1,160,876
Downloads all time 178.2 M 22.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-10 2025-07-17

Download trend

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

16.6 M1.2 M
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 embeddinggemma-300m

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
embeddinggemma-300m · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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