Qwen3-Embedding-4B vs bge-multilingual-gemma2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
3.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
BAAI · B
Params
9.2 B
Context
8,192
30d
1.1 M
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-Embedding-4B bge-multilingual-gemma2
Parameters 4.0 B 9.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Gemma2Model
Context length 40,960 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages
Downloads 30d 3,366,938 1,130,043
Downloads all time 16.5 M 11.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-06-03 2024-07-25

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

3.4 M1.1 M
Qwen3-Embedding-4B bge-multilingual-gemma2

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-Embedding-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
bge-multilingual-gemma2 · fp16 42.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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