snowflake-arctic-embed-xs vs paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
sentence-transformers · B
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
2.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | snowflake-arctic-embed-xs | paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 20 M | 20 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | — | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 2,518,182 | 2,608,179 |
| Downloads all time | 8.9 M | 22.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-04-12 | 2022-03-02 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
3.1 M2.4 M
snowflake-arctic-embed-xs
paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
snowflake-arctic-embed-xs · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB
paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2 · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB