paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs snowflake-arctic-embed-m
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
Snowflake · B · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
371 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 | snowflake-arctic-embed-m |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 110 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 50 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 40,633,685 | 370,553 |
| Downloads all time | 655.9 M | 11.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2024-04-11 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
60.0 M371 K
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
snowflake-arctic-embed-m
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
snowflake-arctic-embed-m · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
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