paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B

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

sentence-transformers · A
Params
280 M
Context
512
30d
9.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
2.1 B
Context
30d
1.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B
Parameters 280 M 2.1 B
Architecture XLMRobertaModel Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 50
Downloads 30d 9,948,737 1,121,356
Downloads all time 133.8 M 11.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2026-01-07

Download trend

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

11.6 M963 K
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B

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
Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B · fp16 5.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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