paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

sentence-transformers · A
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
45.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
sentence-transformers-testing · B
Params
<0.1 M
Context
512
30d
1.9 M

Specification comparison

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Specification paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors
Parameters 120 M <0.1 M
Architecture BertModel BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 50
Downloads 30d 45,742,916 1,861,976
Downloads all time 608.7 M 14.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2023-11-06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

60.0 M1.6 M
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors

VRAM side by side

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

stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors · fp16 0.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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