paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 vs all-MiniLM-L6-v2-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 19 September 2026.

sentence-transformers · A · Open weights
Params
280 M
Context
512
30d
9.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
leliuga · B · Open weights
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
396 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 all-MiniLM-L6-v2-GGUF
Parameters 280 M 20 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 50 1
Downloads 30d 9,113,974 396,202
Downloads all time 149.4 M 500 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2024-03-15

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

11.1 M396 K
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 all-MiniLM-L6-v2-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

all-MiniLM-L6-v2-GGUF · Q4_0 0.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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