MLX Community · First MLX build 2 Apr 2025

nomicai-modernbert-embed-base

MLX Text apache-2.0

A 149M parameter sentence similarity model, with 4 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
149M
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
bf16
nomicai-modernbert-embed-base-bf16
Memory needed
3 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
298 MB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
1.6K
This build, last 30 days
Task
Sentence similarity
Text
MLX builds
4
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.

Run it

Terminal · Hugging Face CLI
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/nomicai-modernbert-embed-base-bf16

MLX builds

4 on mlx-community
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nomicai-modernbert-embed-base-4bit 4-bit 84 MB 3 GB 310
nomicai-modernbert-embed-base-6bit 6-bit 121 MB 3 GB 180
nomicai-modernbert-embed-base-8bit 8-bit 158 MB 3 GB 235
nomicai-modernbert-embed-base-bf16 bf16 298 MB 3 GB 1.6K

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.