Qwen3-Embedding-8B vs 1
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
7.6 B
Context
40,960
30d
2.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-Embedding-8B | 1 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 7.6 B | — |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | LlamaModel |
| Context length | 40,960 | 2,048 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 2,360,481 | 962,923 |
| Downloads all time | 27.4 M | 84.7 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-06-03 | 2024-07-14 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
2.9 M906 K
Qwen3-Embedding-8B
1
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
1 · fp16
0.5 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-Embedding-8B · fp16
18.3 GB / 24 GB