nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs gte-large-en-v1.5

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
Alibaba-NLP · B
Params
430 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification nomic-embed-text-v1.5 gte-large-en-v1.5
Parameters 140 M 430 M
Architecture NomicBertModel NewModel
Context length 2,048 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 15,688,935 1,725,442
Downloads all time 132.5 M 55.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
MTEB ArguAna (reported) 57.966 87.98
MTEB BIOSSES (reported) 84.563975040309 85.117602112908
MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P (reported) 45.690695678511 48.467787861077
MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S (reported) 36.351854909763 43.391983919143
MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P (reported) 38.770253446401 40.577932830194
MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S (reported) 32.943070954973 37.944256238651
MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions (reported) 76.060326254232 75.933144264169
MTEB Banking77Classification (reported) 84.178722808926 87.291329459996
MTEB CQADupstackAndroidRetrieval (reported) 32.164 32.978
MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) 91.804263016433 93.958481377169
MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) 46.593296422632 53.801223340128
MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) 69.355865658579 66.712703108839
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-10 2024-04-20

Download trend

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

15.7 M1.7 M
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 gte-large-en-v1.5

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
gte-large-en-v1.5 · fp16 2.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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