Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs 1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
600 M
Context
32,768
30d
9.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
unslothai · B
Params
Context
2,048
30d
1.1 M

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B 1
Parameters 600 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaModel
Context length 32,768 2,048
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 9,771,658 1,098,785
Downloads all time 74.8 M 81.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-06-03 2024-07-14

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

10.5 M1.1 M
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B 1

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

1 · fp16 0.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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