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nomic-embed-text-v2-moe

by Nomic AI nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe

This model was presented in the paper Training Sparse Mixture Of Experts Text Embedding Models.

Parameters475M
Context
Weights1.9 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads1.9M

Runs On

What it takes to serve nomic-embed-text-v2-moe (475M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 1.0 GB 1.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.5 GB 0.6 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.2 GB 0.3 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

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 nomic-embed-text-v2-moe

Eight experts inside 475 million parameters, and the output is never a sentence: this one turns multilingual text into vectors for similarity search and RAG retrieval. Stored in float32 it is 1.9 GB on disk; at 16-bit the weights are 1.0 GB and it needs 1.1 GB to run, 0.6 GB at 8-bit, 0.3 GB at 4-bit. The cheapest hourly rate on our board, $1.85 for a single MI300X with 192 GB on-demand, turns the sizing question into documents per hour.

Apache 2.0 includes an express patent grant with the usual terms: commercial use, modification and redistribution allowed, notices kept, significant changes stated. It is derived from an unsupervised checkpoint of the same name, and one of its two papers is Matryoshka Representation Learning; read it before fixing the vector size you index. No context length is on record, so confirm the longest passage it will embed.

Model Card

By Nomic AI, published under apache-2.0, revision 1066b6599d09.

nomic-embed-text-v2-moe: Multilingual Mixture of Experts Text Embeddings

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This model was presented in the paper Training Sparse Mixture Of Experts Text Embedding Models.

Model Overview

nomic-embed-text-v2-moe is a SoTA multilingual MoE text embedding model that excels at multilingual retrieval:

  • High Performance: SoTA Multilingual performance compared to ~300M parameter models, competitive with models 2x in size
  • Multilinguality: Supports ~100 languages and trained on over 1.6B pairs
  • Flexible Embedding Dimension: Trained with Matryoshka Embeddings with 3x reductions in storage cost with minimal performance degradations
  • Fully Open-Source: Model weights, code, and training data (see code repo) released

Read the full model card (814 words)

Configuration

Architecture
NomicBertModel
Vocabulary size
250,048
Experts
8
Stored precision
float32
Model type
nomic_bert

Identity and Version

Repository
nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe
Publisher
Nomic AI
Task
Sentence similarity
Modality
Text
Library
sentence-transformers
Parameters
475M parameters
Languages
en, es, fr, de, it, pt, pl, nl
Revision
1066b6599d099fbb93dfcb64f9c37a7c9e503e85
First published
2025-02-07
Last updated
2025-04-01

Files and Weights

12 files, 1.9 GB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 1.9 GB in safetensors.

Weights1 file · 1.9 GB
Configuration6 files · 4.7 KB
Tokenizer2 files · 17.1 MB
Documentation1 file · 9.1 KB
Other1 file · 5.1 MB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights1.9 GB 097012b27af7
1_Pooling/config.jsonConfiguration296 B
config.jsonConfiguration2.5 KB
config_sentence_transformers.jsonConfiguration554 B
modules.jsonConfiguration349 B
sentence_bert_config.jsonConfiguration53 B
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration964 B
README.mdDocumentation9.1 KB
sentencepiece.bpe.modelOther5.1 MB cfc8146abe2a
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer17.1 MB 3a56def25aa4
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer1.1 KB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
1.9 GB
Download from Nomic AI

Released by Nomic AI through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

  • Derived from nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe-unsupervised
  • Described by arXiv:2205.13147
  • Described by arXiv:2502.07972

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published1.9 GB
16-bit1.0 GB
8-bit0.5 GB
4-bit0.2 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About nomic-embed-text-v2-moe

How much GPU memory does nomic-embed-text-v2-moe need?

About 1.1 GB at 16-bit and 0.3 GB at 4-bit: the weights (475M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run nomic-embed-text-v2-moe 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.

Can I use nomic-embed-text-v2-moe commercially?

Yes. nomic-embed-text-v2-moe is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

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