Qwen3-Embedding-8B vs all-MiniLM-L6-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-Embedding-8B | all-MiniLM-L6-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 7.6 B | — |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | BertModel |
| Context length | 40,960 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 3,258,464 | 2,885,743 |
| Downloads all time | 19.6 M | 23.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-06-03 | 2023-05-02 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
3.4 M2.8 M
Qwen3-Embedding-8B
all-MiniLM-L6-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-Embedding-8B · fp16
18.3 GB / 24 GB