paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16
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
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 | Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 1.1 B |
| Architecture | BertModel | Ministral3Model |
| Context length | 512 | 262,144 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 50 | 34 |
| Downloads 30d | 59,393,322 | 455,847 |
| Downloads all time | 535.2 M | 457 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2026-07-14 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
60.0 M446 K
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 · fp16 @ 256K ctx
8.5 GB / 24 GB
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