nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

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
Snowflake · B
Params
570 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification nomic-embed-text-v1.5 snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0
Parameters 140 M 570 M
Architecture NomicBertModel XLMRobertaModel
Context length 2,048 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 74
Downloads 30d 15,688,935 1,440,936
Downloads all time 132.5 M 12.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) 46.593296422632 34.946
MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) 69.355865658579 65.597
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-10 2024-11-08

Download trend

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

15.7 M1.4 M
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

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
snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 · fp16 3.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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