nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs gte-base

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
thenlper · B
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
541 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification nomic-embed-text-v1.5 gte-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 15,688,935 540,908
Downloads all time 132.5 M 22.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
MTEB ArguAna (reported) 57.966 70.128
MTEB BIOSSES (reported) 84.563975040309 87.62669542888
MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P (reported) 45.690695678511 48.597060136996
MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S (reported) 36.351854909763 43.014635930021
MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P (reported) 38.770253446401 38.2047109268
MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S (reported) 32.943070954973 36.589675921476
MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions (reported) 76.060326254232 74.794552169898
MTEB Banking77Classification (reported) 84.178722808926 85.025244600982
MTEB CQADupstackAndroidRetrieval (reported) 32.164 32.411
MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) 91.804263016433 91.765499064046
MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) 46.593296422632 48.22995586185
MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) 69.355865658579 68.112928880464
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-10 2023-07-27

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

15.7 M523 K
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 gte-base

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

gte-base · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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