paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
sentence-transformers · A · Open weights
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
27.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B · Open weights
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
919 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 | paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 20 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 50 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 27,107,729 | 919,051 |
| Downloads all time | 671.8 M | 25.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2022-03-02 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
57.1 M574 K
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2 · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
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