paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs gte-base-en-v1.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

sentence-transformers · A · Open weights

Params

120 M

Context

512

30d

40.6 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Alibaba-NLP · B · Open weights

Params

137 M

Context

8,192

30d

458 K

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification	paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2	gte-base-en-v1.5
Parameters	120 M	137 M
Architecture	BertModel	NewModel
Context length	512	8,192
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0
Commercial use	Allowed	Allowed
Languages	50	1
Downloads 30d	40,633,685	458,305
Downloads all time	655.9 M	20.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2022-03-02	2024-04-20

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

60.0 M399 K

paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 gte-base-en-v1.5

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

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

✅ Runs comfortably

gte-base-en-v1.5 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably