paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs gte-small

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
thenlper · B
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
823 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 gte-small
Parameters 120 M 30 M
Architecture BertModel BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 50 1
Downloads 30d 59,393,322 823,239
Downloads all time 535.2 M 29.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2023-07-27

Download trend

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

60.0 M618 K
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 gte-small

VRAM side by side

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

gte-small · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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