Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs mxbai-embed-large-v1
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B | mxbai-embed-large-v1 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 600 M | 340 M |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | BertModel |
| Context length | 32,768 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 9,771,658 | 4,888,095 |
| Downloads all time | 74.8 M | 89.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | GGUF, SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-06-03 | 2024-03-07 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
10.5 M4.9 M
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B
mxbai-embed-large-v1
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
mxbai-embed-large-v1 · fp16
1.3 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B · fp16
1.9 GB / 24 GB