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

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
nomic-ai · B
Params
140 M
Context
8,192
30d
5.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification nomic-embed-text-v1.5 nomic-embed-text-v1
Parameters 140 M 140 M
Architecture NomicBertModel NomicBertModel
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 5,091,246
Downloads all time 132.5 M 51.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
MTEB ArguAna (reported) 57.966 61.451
MTEB BIOSSES (reported) 84.563975040309 86.912221317777
MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P (reported) 45.690695678511 45.930344947515
MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S (reported) 36.351854909763 36.645794800543
MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P (reported) 38.770253446401 38.489535619745
MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S (reported) 32.943070954973 32.759958575101
MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions (reported) 76.060326254232 75.044848964517
MTEB Banking77Classification (reported) 84.178722808926 84.476574569506
MTEB CQADupstackAndroidRetrieval (reported) 32.164 30.008
MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) 91.804263016433 91.503420774596
MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) 46.593296422632 46.727080809228
MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) 69.355865658579 71.016346555125
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-10 2024-01-31

Download trend

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

15.7 M5.0 M
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 nomic-embed-text-v1

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
nomic-embed-text-v1 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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