Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs jina-embeddings-v3

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
jinaai · B · Open weights
Params
570 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.5 M
cc-by-nc-4.0 · non-commercial

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B jina-embeddings-v3
Parameters 600 M 570 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM XLMRobertaModel
Context length 32,768 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 cc-by-nc-4.0
Commercial use Allowed Not allowed
Languages — 94
Downloads 30d 9,129,136 1,476,769
Downloads all time 102.8 M 83.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-06-03 2024-09-05

Download trend

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

9.7 M1.5 M
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B jina-embeddings-v3

VRAM side by side

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

jina-embeddings-v3 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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