Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B vs all-MiniLM-L6-v2-onnx

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.1 B
Context
—
30d
690 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qdrant · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
512
30d
1.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B all-MiniLM-L6-v2-onnx
Parameters 8.1 B —
Architecture Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration BertModel
Context length — 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 690,297 1,601,209
Downloads all time 12.0 M 12.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS —
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-01-07 2024-01-16

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

2.0 M690 K
Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B all-MiniLM-L6-v2-onnx

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B · fp16 19.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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