paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs snowflake-arctic-embed-xs
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 | snowflake-arctic-embed-xs |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 20 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 50 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 59,393,322 | 2,518,182 |
| Downloads all time | 535.2 M | 8.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2024-04-12 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
60.0 M2.5 M
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
snowflake-arctic-embed-xs
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
snowflake-arctic-embed-xs · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
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