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Octen-Embedding-8B

by Octen-Team Octen/Octen-Embedding-8B

Octen-Embedding-8B is an open-weight model for sentence similarity from Octen-Team, released under Apache License 2.0. It has 7.6B parameters and a 40,960-token context. At 16-bit it needs about 18.2 GB of GPU memory, which fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest prices in the SAVRN Index. It draws 1M downloads a month.

Octen-Embedding-8B is a text embedding model developed by Octen for semantic search and retrieval tasks. This model is fine-tuned from Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B and supports multiple languages, providing high-quality embeddings for various applications.

Parameters7.6B
Context40,960
Weights15.1 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads1M

Runs On

What it takes to serve Octen-Embedding-8B (7.6B parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 15.1 GB 18.2 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 7.6 GB 9.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 3.8 GB 4.5 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Oct 16, 2026.

Octen-Embedding-8B on every accelerator the SAVRN Index prices, at every precision

SAVRN's Notes on Octen-Embedding-8B

Eighteen point two gigabytes: that is what Octen-Embedding-8B needs in 16-bit, against 15.1 GB of weights, and it is the figure that decides where this model lives. The lowest-priced host is one MI300X at $1.85 per hour on-demand, which leaves most of the card for the rest of a retrieval stack. Drop to 8-bit and the need falls to 9.1 GB; 4-bit is 4.5 GB. Octen-Team fine-tuned it from Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B for semantic search and retrieval across multiple languages, and it runs through the sentence-transformers library.

Licensing is not the obstacle here: Apache 2.0 permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, with notices kept, significant changes stated and an express patent grant. Check one thing before committing: the configuration lists 40,960 tokens of context while the publisher's summary says up to 32,768, so test at the window you intend to index. Run the base it derives from as the comparison point.

Model Card

By Octen-Team, published under apache-2.0, revision 5adcfa292e71.

Octen-Embedding-8B is a text embedding model developed by Octen for semantic search and retrieval tasks. This model is fine-tuned from Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B and supports multiple languages, providing high-quality embeddings for various applications.

Key Highlights

RTEB Leaderboard Champion (as of January 12, 2026)

  • Octen-Embedding-8B ranks #1 on the RTEB Leaderboard with Mean (Task) score of 0.8045
  • Excellent performance on both Public (0.7953) and Private (0.8157) datasets
  • Demonstrates true generalization capability without overfitting to public benchmarks

Industry-Oriented Vertical Domain Expertise

  • Legal: Legal document retrieval
  • Finance: Financial reports, Q&A, and personal finance content
  • Healthcare: Medical Q&A, clinical dialogues, and health consultations
  • Code: Programming problems, code search, and SQL queries

Ultra-Long Context Support

  • Supports up to 32,768 tokens context length
  • Suitable for processing long documents in legal, healthcare, and other domains
  • High-dimensional embedding space for rich semantic representation

Multilingual Capability

  • Supports 100+ languages
  • Includes various programming languages
  • Strong multilingual, cross-lingual, and code retrieval capabilities

Open Source Model List

Read the full model card (725 words)

Configuration

Architecture
Qwen3Model
Context length (tokens)
40,960
Layers
36
Hidden size
4,096
Feed-forward size
12,288
Attention heads
32
Key/value heads
8
Head dimension
128
Vocabulary size
151,665
RoPE base
1,000,000
Model type
qwen3

Identity and Version

Repository
Octen/Octen-Embedding-8B
Publisher
Octen-Team
Task
Sentence similarity
Modality
Text
Library
sentence-transformers
Parameters
7.6B parameters
Languages
en, zh
Revision
5adcfa292e712091dfc30f0e97f0b2282e6cc66c
First published
2025-12-23
Last updated
2026-02-09

Files and Weights

19 files, 15.2 GB in total. The weights are 4 files totalling 15.1 GB in safetensors.

Weights4 files · 15.1 GB
Configuration8 files · 34.1 KB
Tokenizer4 files · 15.9 MB
Documentation1 file · 7.8 KB
Other1 file · 2.4 KB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model-00001-of-00004.safetensorsWeights4.9 GB d4dc879c7871
model-00002-of-00004.safetensorsWeights4.9 GB c6d695ffcdd5
model-00003-of-00004.safetensorsWeights5.0 GB d3c49c8bb16b
model-00004-of-00004.safetensorsWeights335.6 MB 1b270d0efa5b
1_Pooling/config.jsonConfiguration298 B —
2_Normalize/config.jsonConfiguration35 B —
added_tokens.jsonConfiguration605 B —
config.jsonConfiguration1.5 KB —
config_sentence_transformers.jsonConfiguration217 B —
model.safetensors.index.jsonConfiguration30.5 KB —
modules.jsonConfiguration350 B —
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration613 B —
README.mdDocumentation7.8 KB —
chat_template.jinjaOther2.4 KB —
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB —
merges.txtTokenizer1.7 MB —
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer11.4 MB 83cdf8c3a34f
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer4.7 KB —
vocab.jsonTokenizer2.8 MB —

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
15.1 GB
Download from Octen-Team

Released by Octen-Team through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published15.1 GB
16-bit15.1 GB
8-bit7.6 GB
4-bit3.8 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About Octen-Embedding-8B

How much GPU memory does Octen-Embedding-8B need?

About 18.2 GB at 16-bit and 4.5 GB at 4-bit: the weights (7.6B parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run Octen-Embedding-8B on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use Octen-Embedding-8B commercially?

Yes. Octen-Embedding-8B is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

What is Octen-Embedding-8B's context length?

40,960 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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