Run nomic-embed-text v1.5 on a VPS.
prices as of · 303 of 524 plans fit, disk included · re-ranked daily
Default RAG embedder in Ollama; negligible memory, runs alongside anything. On a CPU-only VPS it needs about 2.1 GB of RAM: 307 MB of weights in the model's native format and 1.5 GB for the OS and runtime. 303 of the 524 plans in our index fit and include a disk; the cheapest comfortable pick is OVHcloud's VPS-1 2027 · 2 vCPU / 4 GB · EU at $5.18/mo.
The cheapest VPS that runs nomic-embed-text v1.5 is OVHcloud VPS-1 2027 at $5.18/mo, 4 GB of RAM against the 2.1 GB the model needs, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Best VPS plans for nomic-embed-text v1.5
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- 1runs comfortably$5.18/moView at OVHcloud ↗
- 2runs comfortably$5.35/moView at OVHcloud ↗
- 3runs comfortably$5.73/moView at netcup ↗
- 4runs comfortably$5.93/moView at HOSTKEY ↗
- 5runs comfortably$6.27/moView at HOSTKEY ↗
- 6runs comfortably$6.33/monot available nowView at Hetzner ↗
RAM needed · CPU inference
2.1 GB
- weights · native format
- 307 MB
- OS + runtime headroom
- 1.5 GB
Model card
- Size
- 0.14B parameters
- Context
- 2K tokens
- Kind
- embedding
- Released
- 2024-02
- License
- Apache-2.0
Facts fetched from Hugging Face on 7 Sept 2026: exact GGUF file sizes, KV geometry from the GGUF header · 16,202,355 downloads.
Frequently asked
- How much RAM does nomic-embed-text v1.5 need?
- About 2.1 GB for CPU inference at Q4_K_M: 307 MB of weights, 307 MB of KV cache at 8,192 tokens of context, and 1.5 GB of headroom. Longer contexts need more KV cache (36 KB per token for this model).
- What is the cheapest VPS that can run nomic-embed-text v1.5?
- OVHcloud VPS-1 2027 · 2 vCPU / 4 GB · EU (4 GB RAM, 2 vCPU) at $5.18/mo excl. VAT runs it comfortably as of 16 Sept 2026.
- How fast will nomic-embed-text v1.5 run on a VPS without a GPU?
- Embedding models are small and run well on CPUs. Throughput scales with vCPUs rather than RAM.