Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B vs USER-bge-m3
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 8 August 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.1 B
Context
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30d
690 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B | USER-bge-m3 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.1 B | 360 M |
| Architecture | Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration | XLMRobertaModel |
| Context length | — | 8,192 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 690,297 | 361,260 |
| Downloads all time | 12.0 M | 6.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-01-07 | 2024-07-05 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
2.0 M361 K
Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B
USER-bge-m3
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
USER-bge-m3 · fp16
2.1 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B · fp16
19.6 GB / 24 GB