nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs gte-large
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 | gte-large |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 897,251 |
| Downloads all time | 132.5 M | 29.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 57.966 | 70.555 |
| MTEB BIOSSES (reported) | 84.563975040309 | 88.211648516469 |
| MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P (reported) | 45.690695678511 | 48.619246083417 |
| MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S (reported) | 36.351854909763 | 43.357406766469 |
| MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P (reported) | 38.770253446401 | 39.105105197395 |
| MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S (reported) | 32.943070954973 | 36.846899602644 |
| MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions (reported) | 76.060326254232 | 76.155960075628 |
| MTEB Banking77Classification (reported) | 84.178722808926 | 86.015555976818 |
| MTEB CQADupstackAndroidRetrieval (reported) | 32.164 | 32.8 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 91.804263016433 | 92.511121694318 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 46.593296422632 | 48.44785682573 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 69.355865658579 | 66.236843539509 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-02-10 | 2023-07-27 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
15.7 M850 K
nomic-embed-text-v1.5
gte-large
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB
gte-large · fp16
1.3 GB / 24 GB