Qwen3-Embedding-8B vs wavlm-large

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
7.6 B
Context
40,960
30d
2.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
microsoft · B
Params
Context
30d
1.2 M

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-Embedding-8B wavlm-large
Parameters 7.6 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM WavLMModel
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,575,478 1,185,369
Downloads all time 23.7 M 20.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-06-03 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

3.4 M423 K
Qwen3-Embedding-8B wavlm-large

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-Embedding-8B · fp16 18.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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