Qwen3-Embedding-8B vs Qwen3-Embedding-4B-W4A16-G128

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

Qwen · A
Params
7.6 B
Context
40,960
30d
3.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
boboliu · B
Params
4.1 B
Context
40,960
30d
532 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-Embedding-8B Qwen3-Embedding-4B-W4A16-G128
Parameters 7.6 B 4.1 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 3,258,464 532,142
Downloads all time 19.6 M 1.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-06-03 2025-06-06

Download trend

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

3.4 M532 K
Qwen3-Embedding-8B Qwen3-Embedding-4B-W4A16-G128

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-Embedding-4B-W4A16-G128 · fp16 4.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-Embedding-8B · fp16 18.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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