from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer import time, numpy as np model = SentenceTransformer("sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2") texts = ["This is a test."] * 1000 # batch you plan to use t0 = time.time() emb = model.encode(texts, convert_to_numpy=True) t1 = time.time() print("seconds for 1000:", t1-t0) print("shape:", emb.shape)