Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs KURE-v1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
600 M
Context
32,768
30d
8.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nlpai-lab · B · Open weights
Params
568 M
Context
8,192
30d
578 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B KURE-v1
Parameters 600 M 568 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM XLMRobertaModel
Context length 32,768 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 8,126,298 577,859
Downloads all time 97.1 M 3.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-06-03 2024-12-18

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

10.5 M400 K
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B KURE-v1

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
KURE-v1 · fp16 3.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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