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Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B

by Qwen Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B

The Qwen3 Embedding model series is the latest proprietary model of the Qwen family, specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks.

Parameters596M
Context32,768
Weights1.2 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads8.5M

Runs On

What it takes to serve Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B (596M 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 1.2 GB 1.4 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.6 GB 0.7 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.3 GB 0.4 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 Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B

Retrieval pipelines need an encoder that turns text into vectors, and this is the 0.6B of a series that also ships 4B and 8B. It needs 1.4 GB at 16-bit, 0.7 GB at 8-bit and 0.4 GB at 4-bit, so the cheapest setup, a 192 GB MI300X at $1.85 per hour, is a card it will share with the generator it feeds. The 32,768-token context matters more, since it sets how much of a document goes into one vector.

Apache 2.0 makes it a clean component to ship, with commercial use, modification and redistribution permitted, the license and NOTICE file kept and significant changes stated. It derives from Qwen3-0.6B-Base, and the architecture is Qwen3ForCausalLM served through sentence-transformers, so confirm your stack loads it that way. The Index lists no host price, so the comparison is your own accelerator time; arXiv:2506.05176 describes the method.

Model Card

By Qwen, published under apache-2.0, revision 97b0c614be4d.

## Highlights The Qwen3 Embedding model series is the latest proprietary model of the Qwen family, specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks. Building upon the dense foundational models of the Qwen3 series, it provides a comprehensive range of text embeddings and reranking models in various sizes (0.6B, 4B, and 8B). This series inherits the exceptional multilingual capabilities, long-text understanding, and reasoning skills of its foundational model. The Qwen3 Embedding series represents significant advancements in multiple text embedding and ranking tasks, including text retrieval, code retrieval, text classification, text clustering, and bitext mining. **Exceptional Versatility**: The embedding model has achieved state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of downstream application evaluations. The 8B size embedding model ranks **No.1** in the MTEB multilingual leaderboard (as of June 5, 2025, score **70.58**), while the reranking model excels in various text retrieval scenarios. **Comprehensive Flexibility**: The Qwen3 Embedding series offers a full spectrum of sizes (from 0.6B to 8B) for both embedding and…

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Configuration

Architecture
Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length (tokens)
32,768
Layers
28
Hidden size
1,024
Feed-forward size
3,072
Attention heads
16
Key/value heads
8
Head dimension
128
Vocabulary size
151,669
RoPE base
1,000,000
Stored precision
bfloat16
Model type
qwen3

Identity and Version

Repository
Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B
Publisher
Qwen
Task
Feature extraction
Modality
Text
Library
sentence-transformers
Parameters
596M parameters
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
97b0c614be4d77ee51c0cef4e5f07c00f9eb65b3
First published
2025-06-03
Last updated
2026-04-20

Files and Weights

12 files, 1.2 GB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 1.2 GB in safetensors.

Weights1 file · 1.2 GB
Configuration5 files · 1.7 KB
Tokenizer4 files · 15.9 MB
Documentation1 file · 17.2 KB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights1.2 GB 0437e45c9456
1_Pooling/config.jsonConfiguration313 B
config.jsonConfiguration727 B
config_sentence_transformers.jsonConfiguration215 B
generation_config.jsonConfiguration117 B
modules.jsonConfiguration349 B
README.mdDocumentation17.2 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB
merges.txtTokenizer1.7 MB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer11.4 MB def76fb08697
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer9.7 KB
vocab.jsonTokenizer2.8 MB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
1.2 GB
Download from Qwen

Released by Qwen through ModelScope. Read the license.

Built From

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published1.2 GB
16-bit1.2 GB
8-bit0.6 GB
4-bit0.3 GB

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

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Questions About Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B

How much GPU memory does Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B need?

About 1.4 GB at 16-bit and 0.4 GB at 4-bit: the weights (596M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B 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 Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B commercially?

Yes. Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B 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 Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B's context length?

32,768 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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