paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 vs snowflake-arctic-embed-l
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
sentence-transformers · A · Open weights
Params
280 M
Context
512
30d
9.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Snowflake · B · Open weights
Params
334 M
Context
512
30d
519 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 | snowflake-arctic-embed-l |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 280 M | 334 M |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 50 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 9,113,974 | 518,828 |
| Downloads all time | 149.4 M | 3.2 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
11.1 M430 K
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2
snowflake-arctic-embed-l
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB
snowflake-arctic-embed-l · fp16
2.0 GB / 24 GB
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