paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 vs gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

sentence-transformers · A
Params
280 M
Context
512
30d
11.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Alibaba-NLP · B
Params
1.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
1.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct
Parameters 280 M 1.8 B
Architecture XLMRobertaModel Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 512 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 50
Downloads 30d 11,516,808 1,178,033
Downloads all time 117.9 M 6.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2024-06-29

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

11.6 M1.1 M
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct

VRAM side by side

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

paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 12.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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