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Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B

by Qwen Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B

The Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker model series are the latest additions to the Qwen family, built upon the recently open-sourced and powerful Qwen3-VL foundation model.

Parameters8.1B
Context262,144
Weights16.3 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads1.2M

Runs On

What it takes to serve Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B (8.1B 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 16.3 GB 19.5 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 8.1 GB 9.8 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 4.1 GB 4.9 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-VL-Embedding-8B

Retrieval is where this one earns its keep. Qwen built the 8.1 billion parameter embedding model for multimodal search, so it turns text, images, screenshots and video into vectors for retrieval and clustering. At 16-bit the weights are 16.3 GB and the run needs 19.5 GB, so the cheapest card on the Index, one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour on demand, leaves most of its memory idle. At 8-bit the need is 9.8 GB and at 4-bit 4.9 GB, small enough to share a card.

Apache 2.0 allows commercial use, modification and redistribution, provided the license notice and any NOTICE file travel with it and significant changes are stated. Check the 262,144 token context, which sets how much of a document one vector covers, and the lineage: derived from Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct, described in arXiv:2601.04720. No Index host prices it per token yet.

Model Card

By Qwen, published under apache-2.0, revision 2c4565515e0f.

## Highlights The **Qwen3-VL-Embedding** and **Qwen3-VL-Reranker** model series are the latest additions to the Qwen family, built upon the recently open-sourced and powerful Qwen3-VL foundation model. Specifically designed for multimodal information retrieval and cross-modal understanding, this suite accepts diverse inputs including text, images, screenshots, and videos, as well as inputs containing a mixture of these modalities. While the Embedding model generates high-dimensional vectors for broad applications like retrieval and clustering, the Reranker model is engineered to refine these results, establishing a comprehensive pipeline for state-of-the-art multimodal search. - **Multimodal Versatility**: Both models seamlessly handle a wide range of inputs—including text, images, screenshots, and video—within a unified framework. They deliver state-of-the-art performance across diverse multimodal tasks such as image-text retrieval, video-text matching, visual question answering (VQA), and multimodal content clustering. - **Unified Representation Learning (Embedding)**: By leveraging the Qwen3-VL architecture, the Embedding model generates semantically rich vectors that capture both visual and textual information in a shared space. This facilitates efficient…

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Configuration

Architecture
Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length (tokens)
262,144
Layers
36
Hidden size
4,096
Feed-forward size
12,288
Attention heads
32
Key/value heads
8
Head dimension
128
Vocabulary size
151,936
RoPE base
5,000,000
Model type
qwen3_vl

Identity and Version

Repository
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B
Publisher
Qwen
Task
Sentence similarity
Modality
Text
Library
sentence-transformers
Parameters
8.1B parameters
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
2c4565515e0f265c6511776e7193b22c0968ddc7
First published
2026-01-07
Last updated
2026-04-16

Files and Weights

22 files, 16.3 GB in total. The weights are 4 files totalling 16.3 GB in safetensors.

Weights4 files · 16.3 GB
Configuration11 files · 87.0 KB
Tokenizer4 files · 15.9 MB
Documentation1 file · 24.2 KB
Other1 file · 5.5 KB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model-00001-of-00004.safetensorsWeights5.0 GB 79ef275ec5f7
model-00002-of-00004.safetensorsWeights4.9 GB a4da61f512e8
model-00003-of-00004.safetensorsWeights4.9 GB 7fb17cf8f06d
model-00004-of-00004.safetensorsWeights1.5 GB 000213b6d1d0
1_Pooling/config.jsonConfiguration97 B
added_tokens.jsonConfiguration707 B
config.jsonConfiguration1.5 KB
config_sentence_transformers.jsonConfiguration238 B
model.safetensors.index.jsonConfiguration67.7 KB
modules.jsonConfiguration430 B
preprocessor_config.jsonConfiguration784 B
scripts/qwen3_vl_embedding.pyConfiguration13.3 KB
sentence_bert_config.jsonConfiguration771 B
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration613 B
video_preprocessor_config.jsonConfiguration817 B
README.mdDocumentation24.2 KB
chat_template.jinjaOther5.5 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB
merges.txtTokenizer1.7 MB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer11.4 MB def76fb08697
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer5.4 KB
vocab.jsonTokenizer2.8 MB

License and Download

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

Released by Qwen through ModelScope. Read the license.

Built From

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published16.3 GB
16-bit16.3 GB
8-bit8.1 GB
4-bit4.1 GB

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

Questions About Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B

How much GPU memory does Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B need?

About 19.5 GB at 16-bit and 4.9 GB at 4-bit: the weights (8.1B parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run Qwen3-VL-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 Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B commercially?

Yes. Qwen3-VL-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 Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B's context length?

262,144 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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