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What it takes to serve multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1 (23M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.
Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.
SAVRN's Notes on multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1
Questions on one side, answers on the other: that pairing is what Sentence Transformers trained this 23M-parameter embedder on, 215M question-and-answer pairs from sources including ms_marco, gooaq, natural_questions, trivia_qa and eli5. Six layers, a 384-dimensional output, built for semantic search. Memory is 0.1 GB at 16-bit and rounds to 0.0 GB at 8-bit and 4-bit, so the cheapest host we list, one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour on-demand, is a card this model shares with whatever generator answers the query.
The license field is blank. Access is open, so the files come from the publisher without a gate, but blank is not permission, and a deployment that earns money needs the terms in writing before it ships. Check the 512-token context against the length of the passages you index. Released March 2, 2022, last updated November 5, 2024, and no Index host prices it per token.
SAVRN Research, 2026-09-18
Model Card
This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 dimensional dense vector space and was designed for semantic search. It has been trained on 215M (question, answer) pairs from diverse sources. For an introduction to semantic search, have a look at: SBERT.net - Semantic Search Using this model becomes easy when you have sentence-transformers installed: Then you can use the model like this: Without sentence-transformers, you can use the model like this: First, you pass your input through the transformer model, then you have to apply the correct pooling-operation on-top of the contextualized word embeddings. Similarly to the PyTorch example above, to use the model…
Excerpt from the card by Sentence Transformers.
Configuration
- Architecture
- BertModel
- Context length (tokens)
- 512
- Layers
- 6
- Hidden size
- 384
- Feed-forward size
- 1,536
- Attention heads
- 12
- Vocabulary size
- 30,522
- Model type
- bert
Identity and Version
- Repository
- sentence-transformers/multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1
- Publisher
- Sentence Transformers
- Task
- Sentence similarity
- Modality
- Text
- Library
- sentence-transformers
- Parameters
- 23M parameters
- Languages
- en
- Revision
- b207367332321f8e44f96e224ef15bc607f4dbf0
- First published
- 2022-03-02
- Last updated
- 2024-11-05
Files and Weights
29 files, 886.0 MB in total. The weights are 14 files totalling 884.7 MB in bin, h5, onnx, safetensors.
Weights14 files · 884.7 MB
Configuration8 files · 40.7 KB
Tokenizer3 files · 698.1 KB
Documentation1 file · 11.6 KB
Other2 files · 580.0 KB
Repository1 file · 791 B
Every file
License and Download
- License
- Not stated by the source
- Access
- Open weights, no gate
- Download size
- 884.7 MB
Built From
- Trained on (disclosed)
eli5
- Trained on (disclosed)
embedding-data/Amazon-QA
- Trained on (disclosed)
embedding-data/PAQ_pairs
- Trained on (disclosed)
embedding-data/QQP
- Trained on (disclosed)
embedding-data/WikiAnswers
- Trained on (disclosed)
flax-sentence-embeddings/stackexchange_xml
- Trained on (disclosed)
gooaq
- Trained on (disclosed)
ms_marco
- Trained on (disclosed)
natural_questions
- Trained on (disclosed)
search_qa
- Trained on (disclosed)
trivia_qa
- Trained on (disclosed)
yahoo_answers_topics
Memory Requirements
Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.
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Questions About multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1
How much GPU memory does multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1 need?
About 0.1 GB at 16-bit and 0 GB at 4-bit: the weights (23M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.
What is the cheapest GPU to run multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1 on?
At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.
What is multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1's context length?
512 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.
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