Embeddings and rerankers trends · updated Oct 2, 2026

Which open-weight embedding and reranker models get downloaded most

A daily read of Hugging Face's top 5,000 models, focused on embedding and reranker models, the models behind semantic search and retrieval: the most downloaded, new uploads in the top 5,000, what they are used for, and who makes them.

Most downloaded

The most-downloaded open-weight embedding and reranker models

Ranked by downloads over the last 30 days. Fine-tuned versions count; most format conversions and re-uploads are left out. Counts include automated fetches, which lift models that tools and test suites pull by default. How models are placed is explained under About this data.

#	Model	Maker	Task	Licence	Downloads	Valkyrie
1	all-MiniLM-L6-v2	sentence-transformers	Embeddings	Apache-2.0	242.2M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
2	ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2	cross-encoder	Rerankers	Apache-2.0	85.8M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
3	bge-small-en-v1.5	BAAI	Embeddings	MIT	63.3M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
4	paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2	sentence-transformers	Embeddings	Apache-2.0	48.9M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
5	bge-m3	BAAI	Embeddings	MIT	35.4M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
6	all-mpnet-base-v2	sentence-transformers	Embeddings	Apache-2.0	20.1M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
7	bge-reranker-v2-m3	BAAI	Rerankers	Apache-2.0	17.1M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
8	nomic-embed-text-v1.5	nomic-ai	Embeddings	Apache-2.0	13.4M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
9	multilingual-e5-small	intfloat	Embeddings	MIT	11.8M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
10	bge-base-en-v1.5	BAAI	Embeddings	MIT	10.4M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
11	paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2	sentence-transformers	Embeddings	Apache-2.0	9.9M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
12	bge-large-en-v1.5	BAAI	Embeddings	MIT	9.8M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
13	Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B	Qwen	Embeddings	Apache-2.0	9.7M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
14	multilingual-e5-large	intfloat	Embeddings	MIT	7.4M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
15	multilingual-e5-base	intfloat	Embeddings	MIT	7.2M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
16	ms-marco-MiniLM-L4-v2	cross-encoder	Rerankers	Apache-2.0	6.0M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
17	granite-embedding-small-english-r2	ibm-granite	Embeddings	Apache-2.0	5.4M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
18	bge-small-zh-v1.5	BAAI	Embeddings	MIT	4.8M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
19	bge-reranker-base	BAAI	Rerankers	MIT	4.2M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
20	bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5	datasocietyco	Embeddings	-	4.1M
21	all-MiniLM-L12-v2	sentence-transformers	Embeddings	Apache-2.0	3.7M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
22	embeddinggemma-300m	google	Embeddings	Gemma licence	3.7M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
23	nomic-embed-text-v1	nomic-ai	Embeddings	Apache-2.0	2.9M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
24	all-distilroberta-v1	sentence-transformers	Embeddings	Apache-2.0	2.7M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →
25	Qwen3-Embedding-8B	Qwen	Embeddings	Apache-2.0	2.5M	Fine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →

New releases

New embedding and reranker models in the top 5,000

Uploaded to Hugging Face in the last six months with at least 25 likes or a trending score of 10, ranked by downloads over the last 30 days. Most format conversions and re-uploads are left out.

Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16nvidiaEmbeddings · uploaded Jul 14, 2026423K downloads in 30 days

granite-embedding-311m-multilingual-r2ibm-graniteEmbeddings · uploaded Apr 20, 2026180K downloads in 30 daysFine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →

Giga-Embeddings-instruct-480M-0826ai-sageEmbeddings · uploaded Aug 10, 2026160K downloads in 30 daysFine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →

Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16nvidiaEmbeddings · uploaded Jul 14, 2026109K downloads in 30 days

granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2ibm-graniteEmbeddings · uploaded Apr 20, 202696K downloads in 30 daysFine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →

bekko-embedding-v1-a25mhotchpotchEmbeddings · uploaded Jul 19, 202635K downloads in 30 daysFine-tune one like it →Fine-tune one →

What they're used for

Downloads by task

Share of downloads of embedding and reranker models in Hugging Face's top 5,000 on Oct 2, 2026, leaving out most format conversions and re-uploads.

Embeddings81.6%

Rerankers18.4%

Who's winning

Share of downloads by maker

Each repo counts under the account that uploaded it, leaving out most format conversions and re-uploads. Change is in percentage points since Jul 4, 2026.

sentence-transformers46.3% (−0.9 pts)

BAAI20.5% (+0.7 pts)

cross-encoder13.4% (+1.4 pts)

intfloat4.3% (−0.7 pts)

Qwen2.9% (−0.1 pts)

nomic-ai2.5% (−0.5 pts)

jinaai1.0% (−0.4 pts)

Alibaba-NLP0.8% (−0.1 pts)

Other8.3% (+0.7 pts)

Licences of the most-downloaded embedding and reranker models

Apache-2.0 72.0%MIT 23.8%Gemma licence 0.6%Other or none 3.6%

As declared on each repo, leaving out most format conversions and re-uploads.