Qwen3-Embedding-8B vs bge-large-zh-v1.5
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-Embedding-8B | bge-large-zh-v1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 7.6 B | — |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | BertModel |
| Context length | 40,960 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 3,258,464 | 1,772,954 |
| Downloads all time | 19.6 M | 26.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-06-03 | 2023-09-12 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
3.4 M1.6 M
Qwen3-Embedding-8B
bge-large-zh-v1.5
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-Embedding-8B · fp16
18.3 GB / 24 GB