nomic-embed-text-v1.5 vs stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors

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
sentence-transformers-testing · B · Open weights
Params
<0.1 M
Context
512
30d
860 K

Specification comparison

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Specification nomic-embed-text-v1.5 stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors
Parameters 140 M <0.1 M
Architecture NomicBertModel BertModel
Context length 2,048 512
Licence apache-2.0 —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 11,931,543 860,199
Downloads all time 178.2 M 15.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-10 2023-11-06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

16.6 M860 K
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors · fp16 0.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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