snowflake-arctic-embed-xs vs Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 3 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | snowflake-arctic-embed-xs | Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 20 M | 1.1 B |
| Architecture | BertModel | Ministral3Model |
| Context length | 512 | 262,144 |
| Licence | — | other |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Unknown |
| Languages | — | 34 |
| Downloads 30d | 2,518,182 | 455,847 |
| Downloads all time | 8.9 M | 457 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-04-12 | 2026-07-14 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
3.1 M446 K
snowflake-arctic-embed-xs
Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
snowflake-arctic-embed-xs · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB
Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 · fp16 @ 256K ctx
8.5 GB / 24 GB