snowflake-arctic-embed-xs vs S-PubMedBert-MedQuAD

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 30 July 2026.

Snowflake · A · Open weights
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
359 K
TimKond · B · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
422 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification snowflake-arctic-embed-xs S-PubMedBert-MedQuAD
Parameters 20 M 110 M
Architecture BertModel BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence — mit
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 358,988 422,018
Downloads all time 10.0 M 3.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-04-12 2022-06-09

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

3.1 M359 K
snowflake-arctic-embed-xs S-PubMedBert-MedQuAD

VRAM side by side

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

snowflake-arctic-embed-xs · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
S-PubMedBert-MedQuAD · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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