nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs gte-multilingual-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
Alibaba-NLP · B
Params
310 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification nomic-embed-text-v1.5 gte-multilingual-base
Parameters 140 M 310 M
Architecture NomicBertModel NewModel
Context length 2,048 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 75
Downloads 30d 15,688,935 1,241,013
Downloads all time 132.5 M 28.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) 91.804263016433 80.717625
MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) 46.593296422632 43.642
MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) 69.355865658579 75.955223880597
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-10 2024-07-20

Download trend

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

15.7 M1.2 M
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 gte-multilingual-base

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-multilingual-base · fp16 1.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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