nomic-embed-text-v1 vs Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 3 August 2026.

nomic-ai · A
Params
140 M
Context
8,192
30d
5.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B
Params
1.1 B
Context
262,144
30d
456 K

Specification comparison

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Specification nomic-embed-text-v1 Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16
Parameters 140 M 1.1 B
Architecture NomicBertModel Ministral3Model
Context length 8,192 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 34
Downloads 30d 5,091,246 455,847
Downloads all time 51.8 M 457 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-31 2026-07-14

Download trend

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

5.1 M446 K
nomic-embed-text-v1 Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16

VRAM side by side

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

nomic-embed-text-v1 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 8.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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