nomic-embed-text-v1 vs sarashina-embedding-v1-1b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 7 September 2026.

nomic-ai · A
Params
140 M
Context
8,192
30d
3.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
sbintuitions · B
Params
1.2 B
Context
8,192
30d
413 K

Specification comparison

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Specification nomic-embed-text-v1 sarashina-embedding-v1-1b
Parameters 140 M 1.2 B
Architecture NomicBertModel LlamaModel
Context length 8,192 8,192
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 2
Downloads 30d 3,157,609 413,104
Downloads all time 57.4 M 548 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-31 2024-11-22

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

5.1 M408 K
nomic-embed-text-v1 sarashina-embedding-v1-1b

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
sarashina-embedding-v1-1b · fp16 6.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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