Nomic Embed Text v2 MoE
Hugging Face (Nomic AI) Open weights
The catch: Input is capped at 512 tokens and every text needs a search_query: or search_document: prefix.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 475M total / 305M active parameters (MoE, 8 experts, top-2); 768-dim embeddings, truncatable to 256 (Matryoshka); max 512 tokens; about 100 languages. The older nomic-embed-text-v1.5 (Apache-2.0) takes 8192 tokens at 768 dims (Matryoshka down to 64). |
| Modality | embeddings |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Apache-2.0 |
| Context window | 512 tokens |
| Model id | nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 2 Oct 2026 |
How to use Nomic Embed Text v2 MoE
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Quickstart
ollama pull nomic-embed-text-v2-moe
Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "Nomic Embed Text v2 MoE" (nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- Input is capped at 512 tokens and every text needs a search_query: or search_document: prefix.
- Apache-2.0 (licence tag on huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe); the card calls weights, code and training data fully open-source.
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is Nomic Embed Text v2 MoE free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Apache-2.0. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Nomic Embed Text v2 MoE commercially?
Yes, under Apache-2.0. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Nomic Embed Text v2 MoE?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Source: huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe, checked 2 Oct 2026.