Qwen3-Embedding-8B vs wavlm-large

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
microsoft · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
—
30d
1.4 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 2,360,481 1,352,896
Downloads all time 27.4 M 21.8 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

2.9 M390 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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