paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs all-MiniLM-L12-v2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

sentence-transformers · A

Params

120 M

Context

512

30d

59.4 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

sentence-transformers · B

Params

30 M

Context

512

30d

3.5 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2	all-MiniLM-L12-v2
Parameters	120 M	30 M
Architecture	BertModel	BertModel
Context length	512	512
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0
Commercial use	Allowed	Allowed
Languages	50	1
Downloads 30d	59,393,322	3,497,496
Downloads all time	535.2 M	247.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2022-03-02	2022-03-02

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

60.0 M3.2 M

paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 all-MiniLM-L12-v2

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

all-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16 0.7 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably