Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B vs bm25

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

Qwen · A
Params
8.1 B
Context
30d
2.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qdrant · B
Params
Context
30d
977 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B bm25
Parameters 8.1 B
Architecture Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,370,254 976,616
Downloads all time 8.2 M 7.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-01-07 2024-06-13

Download trend

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

2.4 M926 K
Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B bm25

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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