nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
sentence-transformers · B
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
1.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | nomic-embed-text-v1.5 | paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 140 M | 20 M |
| Architecture | NomicBertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 2,048 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 14,480,893 | 1,516,916 |
| Downloads all time | 156.5 M | 161.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-02-10 | 2022-03-02 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
16.6 M1.5 M
nomic-embed-text-v1.5
paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2 · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB