Top open sentence-similarity models
Models that measure semantic similarity between sentences.
How this list works: ranked by Hugging Face downloads in the last 30 days, among models with 1,000+ downloads.
| # | Model | Author | Downloads (30 days) | Likes | Size | License | Commercial use | Runs on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | all-MiniLM-L6-v2 | sentence-transformers | 208.9M | 6.4K | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 2 | paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 | sentence-transformers | 45M | 1.5K | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 3 | bge-m3 | BAAI | 31.7M | 3.9K | – | MIT | Yes | CPU |
| 4 | all-mpnet-base-v2 | sentence-transformers | 18.1M | 1.4K | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 5 | nomic-embed-text-v1.5 | nomic-ai | 13.3M | 977 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 6 | multilingual-e5-small | intfloat | 9.5M | 466 | – | MIT | Yes | CPU |
| 7 | paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 | sentence-transformers | 9.2M | 551 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 8 | multilingual-e5-base | intfloat | 6.3M | 410 | – | MIT | Yes | CPU |
| 9 | bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 | datasocietyco | 4.1M | 17 | – | Not stated | Check the license | GPU |
| 10 | embeddinggemma-300m | 2.8M | 2K | 300M | Gemma license | Yes, with conditions | GPU | |
| 11 | all-MiniLM-L12-v2 | sentence-transformers | 2.8M | 346 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 12 | all-distilroberta-v1 | sentence-transformers | 2.8M | 50 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 13 | nomic-embed-text-v1 | nomic-ai | 2M | 594 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 14 | snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 | Snowflake | 1.7M | 262 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 15 | gte-large-en-v1.5 | Alibaba-NLP | 1.7M | 247 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 16 | bge-small-en-v1.5-onnx-Q | Qdrant | 1.6M | 11 | – | MIT | Yes | CPU |
| 17 | all-MiniLM-L6-v2-onnx | Qdrant | 1.6M | 25 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 18 | paraphrase-mpnet-base-v2 | sentence-transformers | 1.5M | 57 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 19 | multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1 | sentence-transformers | 1.5M | 204 | – | Not stated | Check the license | CPU |
| 20 | paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2 | sentence-transformers | 1.4M | 158 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 21 | distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1 | sentence-transformers | 1.4M | 141 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 22 | Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B | Qwen | 1.4M | 503 | 8B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 23 | gte-multilingual-base | Alibaba-NLP | 1.3M | 387 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 24 | pubmedbert-base-embeddings | NeuML | 1.2M | 205 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 25 | nomic-embed-text-v2-moe | nomic-ai | 1.1M | 510 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
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