Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs deepset-mxbai-embed-de-large-v1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
600 M
Context
32,768
30d
9.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
mixedbread-ai · B · Open weights
Params
487 M
Context
512
30d
504 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B deepset-mxbai-embed-de-large-v1
Parameters 600 M 487 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM XLMRobertaModel
Context length 32,768 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 9,129,136 504,335
Downloads all time 102.8 M 4.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-06-03 2024-07-12

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

9.7 M354 K
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B deepset-mxbai-embed-de-large-v1

VRAM side by side

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

deepset-mxbai-embed-de-large-v1 · fp16 1.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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