nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs multilingual-e5-base
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
intfloat · B · Open weights
Params
280 M
Context
512
30d
4.9 M
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | nomic-embed-text-v1.5 | multilingual-e5-base |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 140 M | 280 M |
| Architecture | NomicBertModel | XLMRobertaModel |
| Context length | 2,048 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 94 |
| Downloads 30d | 11,931,543 | 4,907,595 |
| Downloads all time | 178.2 M | 75.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 57.966 | 22.831 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 91.804263016433 | 90.603786363868 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 46.593296422632 | 44.056666383709 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 69.355865658579 | 73.380750300705 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-02-10 | 2023-05-19 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
16.6 M4.9 M
nomic-embed-text-v1.5
multilingual-e5-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
multilingual-e5-base · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB