paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs bge-m3
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.
sentence-transformers · A
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
45.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 | bge-m3 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | — |
| Architecture | BertModel | XLMRobertaModel |
| Context length | 512 | 8,192 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 50 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 45,855,533 | 38,045,991 |
| Downloads all time | 607.2 M | 309.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2024-01-27 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)
60.0 M32.2 M
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
bge-m3
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB