Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs w2v-bert-2.0

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
facebook · B · Open weights
Params
580 M
Context
—
30d
1.3 M
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B w2v-bert-2.0
Parameters 600 M 580 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Wav2Vec2BertModel
Context length 32,768 —
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 96
Downloads 30d 9,129,136 1,328,419
Downloads all time 102.8 M 42.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-06-03 2023-12-19

Download trend

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

9.7 M1.1 M
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B w2v-bert-2.0

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
w2v-bert-2.0 · fp16 3.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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