paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs nli-mpnet-base-v2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 7 August 2026.

sentence-transformers · A

Params

120 M

Context

512

30d

58.2 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

sentence-transformers · B

Params

110 M

Context

512

30d

439 K

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification	paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2	nli-mpnet-base-v2
Parameters	120 M	110 M
Architecture	BertModel	MPNetModel
Context length	512	512
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0
Commercial use	Allowed	Allowed
Languages	50	—
Downloads 30d	58,154,897	438,612
Downloads all time	535.9 M	7.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2022-03-02	2022-03-02

Daily snapshots, last 11 days (28 Jul – 7 Aug)

60.0 M439 K

paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 nli-mpnet-base-v2

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

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

✅ Runs comfortably

nli-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably