{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "granite-embedding-small-english-r2", "name": "Granite Embedding Small English R2", "vendor": "IBM", "vendorUrl": "https://www.ibm.com/granite", "kind": "weights", "category": "embeddings", "summary": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 is IBM's open-weight English text embedding model, a 47M-parameter ModernBERT bi-encoder that returns 384-dimension vectors for inputs of up to 8,192 tokens, trained on permissively licensed and IBM data, under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-embedding-small-english-r2", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-embedding-small-english-r2.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-embedding-small-english-r2.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-embedding-small-english-r2.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository isn't gated (checked 2026-10-21). The examples and paper are in the public GitHub repository ibm-granite/granite-embedding-models.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. IBM sells no per-call access to this model; watsonx.ai's embedding list has only the multilingual Granite embedding models. Running it costs almost nothing in hardware, 95 MB of BF16 safetensors (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-models", "capabilities": [ "embed.text", "embed.code", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "embeddings", "english", "modernbert", "long-context", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-01-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 41.7, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 10, "interface": 60, "reach": 70, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 37 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A tiny English embedding cousin for retrieval over long documents and code, 47M parameters with 384-dimension vectors and an 8,192-token input, under Apache 2.0 with a permissive data story. It runs on any hardware through Sentence Transformers, vLLM or llama.cpp. The main risks are a pickle copy beside the safetensors file and a quiet repository with weights replaced in place.", "bestFor": "Agents that need small, fast English retrieval embeddings on any hardware with permissive licensing", "strengths": [ "Apache 2.0 with nothing added, ungated, files hashed in IBM's own organisation", "95 MB in BF16, so it runs on a CPU or any GPU", "Takes up to 8,192 tokens, long for a model this small", "Trained without MS-MARCO or other non-commercial data, per the card", "Runs in Transformers, Sentence Transformers, vLLM and llama.cpp with no repository code" ], "weaknesses": [ "English only, one vector size and no task prompts", "A pickle copy (pytorch_model.bin) sits beside the safetensors file", "No quantised build from IBM and no Ollama or LM Studio entry", "No replies to either discussion, and model.safetensors was replaced on 6 January 2026 without a note", "No safety results and no training data cut-off" ], "agentNotes": [ "Load it with `SentenceTransformer(\"ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2\")`, or serve it with `vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2 --runner pooling` and call /v1/embeddings", "Pass `normalize_embeddings=True` when you need unit vectors; Sentence Transformers returns them unnormalised", "In raw Transformers, take the CLS token (`model_output[0][:, 0]`) and normalise it yourself", "Don't add query or passage prefixes; the model takes plain text", "Load the safetensors file and ignore pytorch_model.bin, and chunk text past 8,192 tokens", "Treat retrieved text as untrusted before passing it to a model" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 41.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 10, "interface": 60, "reach": 70, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 37 }, "provenanceScore": 87, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install -U sentence-transformers\npython -c \"from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; m=SentenceTransformer('ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2'); print(m.encode(['summit define'], normalize_embeddings=True).shape)\"\n# or, with vLLM:\nvllm serve ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2 --runner pooling", "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/embeddings \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2\", \"input\": [\"summit define\"]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/embed.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/granite-embedding-small-english-r2" }, "sameCompany": [ "granite-guardian", "granite-switch", "granite-4-2-3b" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "IBM", "params": "47M", "context": 8192, "dimensions": 384, "goodFor": "Fast English text and code retrieval embeddings on any hardware, with long inputs up to 8,192 tokens and a permissive data story.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "granite-embedding-small-english-r2", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 0.1, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Size is model.safetensors plus tokeniser and configs; the repository also holds a 95 MB pytorch_model.bin copy, 0.19 GB in all" } ], "run": "vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2 --runner pooling", "runBuild": "granite-embedding-small-english-r2", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "family": { "lab": "IBM (Granite)", "family": "Granite Embedding R2", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#ibm", "others": [ { "name": "granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2", "params": "97M (Hub safetensors count 97M)" }, { "name": "granite-embedding-311m-multilingual-r2", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-311m-multilingual-r2", "params": "311M (Hub safetensors count 312M)" }, { "name": "granite-embedding-reranker-english-r2", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-reranker-english-r2", "params": "150M (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-embedding-english-r2", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-english-r2", "params": "149M (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" } ], "olderCount": 64 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "International Business Machines Corporation", "domain": "ibm.com", "domainRegistered": "1986-03-19", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2/commits/main", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The legal entity and registration date of ibm.com are carried from the granite-guardian listing's provenance, checked on 8 October 2026. www.ibm.com/granite links to huggingface.co/ibm-granite.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The Hugging Face commit history has seven commits from 17 July 2025 to 21 January 2026. Most messages don't say what changed.", "www.ibm.com/.well-known/security.txt lists IBM PSIRT, HackerOne and an email contact and expires on 21 November 2026. Neither ibm-granite/granite-embedding-models nor the ibm-granite organisation's .github repository has a SECURITY file." ], "score": 87 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-embedding-small-english-r2.json" }, "answer": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Granite Embedding Small English R2's 41.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "name": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", "vendor": "Alibaba (Qwen team)", "vendorUrl": "https://qwen.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "embeddings", "summary": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B is Alibaba's open-weight text embedding model of 0.6B parameters, built on Qwen3-0.6B-Base, for retrieval, classification and clustering in over 100 languages and code, with 1,024-dimension vectors and a 32K context, under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-0-6b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-0-6b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-embedding-0-6b.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-GGUF" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "qwen3-embedding:0.6b" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. Both Qwen repositories report gated false (checked 2026-10-21). Ollama's library build pulls with no account.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. Running it costs the hardware, 1.2 GB for the BF16 files and 0.64 GB for the Q8_0 GGUF from Qwen or Ollama. Alibaba's Model Studio sells text-embedding-v4, which it calls part of the Qwen3-Embedding series, but its dimensions up to 2,048 don't match this model's 1,024 (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Embedding", "capabilities": [ "embed.text", "embed.multilingual", "embed.code", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "embeddings", "multilingual", "code-retrieval", "matryoshka", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "gguf", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-04-20", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 56, "interface": 65, "reach": 90, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 39 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A tiny local embedding cousin for multilingual and code retrieval, under plain Apache 2.0, that fits in under 1 GB at Q8_0 and runs in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers. Queries need a task instruction and last-token pooling. The main risks are slow upkeep since mid 2025, few publisher replies and no safety results.", "bestFor": "Agents that need local multilingual or code retrieval embeddings on any hardware, CPU included", "strengths": [ "Apache 2.0 with nothing added on both it and its base, ungated, safetensors and GGUF only", "0.64 GB at Q8_0 from Qwen or Ollama, so it fits almost any machine", "Five released runtimes run it, plus Sentence Transformers and Text Embeddings Inference", "Instruction format, last-token pooling and the vector output are documented with examples", "32K-token inputs and over 100 languages, code included" ], "weaknesses": [ "Queries need the right task instruction, and the card says leaving it out costs 1% to 5% in retrieval", "Custom dimensions from 32 to 1,024 are claimed without instructions", "No change from Alibaba since a README update on 20 April 2026, and few publisher replies in its discussions", "No safety results, agent guidance or security contact", "config.json names Qwen3ForCausalLM, with an open pull request to change it and the card's vLLM example out of date" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with `ollama pull qwen3-embedding:0.6b`, then POST to /api/embed with the text in `input`", "With llama.cpp, run `llama-server -hf Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-GGUF:Q8_0 --embedding --pooling last -ub 8192`; without `--pooling last` the vectors are wrong", "Prefix queries with `Instruct: \u003cone-sentence task\u003e\\nQuery:` and send documents as they are; write the instruction in English", "In Transformers, use left padding, take the last token's hidden state and L2-normalise it, as in the card's last_token_pool", "In Sentence Transformers, pass `prompt_name=\"query\"` for queries; the prompt is stored in config_sentence_transformers.json", "If you shorten vectors below 1,024, test retrieval quality first, since the card doesn't say how it expects them cut", "Retrieved documents are untrusted text; embedding them doesn't remove instructions an attacker put in them" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 56, "interface": 65, "reach": 90, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 39 }, "provenanceScore": 49, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama pull qwen3-embedding:0.6b\n# or, with llama.cpp and Qwen's GGUF:\nllama-server -hf Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-GGUF:Q8_0 --embedding --pooling last -ub 8192", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/embed \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"qwen3-embedding:0.6b\", \"input\": [\"Instruct: Given a web search query, retrieve relevant passages that answer the query\\nQuery: What is the capital of China?\"]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/embed.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/qwen3-embedding-0-6b" }, "sameCompany": [ "qwen3-embedding-4b", "qwen3-embedding-8b", "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b", "qwen3-vl-embedding-8b", "qwen3-asr-0-6b", "qwen3-asr-1-7b", "qwen3-tts-1-7b-customvoice", "qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507", "qwen3-4b-instruct-2507", "qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-coder-next", "qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-2b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-32b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-4b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-8b-instruct", "qwen3-5-0-8b", "qwen3-5-122b-a10b", "qwen3-5-2b", "qwen3-5-397b-a17b", "qwen3-5-4b", "qwen3-5-9b", "qwen3-6-27b", "qwen3-6-35b-a3b", "qwen3-8-27b", "qwen3-8-flash-next" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Alibaba (Qwen team)", "builtOn": "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base (fine-tune)", "params": "0.6B", "context": 32768, "goodFor": "Multilingual and code text embeddings for retrieval, classification and clustering, with task instructions on queries and vectors up to 1,024 dimensions.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 1.21, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ] }, { "name": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-GGUF Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 0.64, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-Q8_0.gguf; the same repository holds an F16 file of 1.20 GB" }, { "name": "ollama qwen3-embedding:0.6b", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/qwen3-embedding:0.6b", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 0.64, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Q8_0, digest ac6da0dfba84, 639 MB as Ollama's tags page shows it, with a 32K context. An fp16 tag of 1.2 GB is also listed" } ], "run": "ollama pull qwen3-embedding:0.6b", "runBuild": "ollama qwen3-embedding:0.6b", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "family": { "lab": "Alibaba (Qwen)", "family": "Qwen3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#qwen", "others": [ { "name": "Qwen3-0.6B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-1.7B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B", "params": "1.7B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-14B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-14B", "params": "14B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-235B-A22B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B", "params": "235B-A22B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-30B-A3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B", "params": "30B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-32B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-32B", "params": "32B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B", "params": "4B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B", "params": "8B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-0.6B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-1.7B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base", "params": "1.7B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-14B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-14B-Base", "params": "14B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-30B-A3B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Base", "params": "30B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-4B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base", "params": "4B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-8B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B-Base", "params": "8B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Reranker-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-8B", "params": "8B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Embedding-4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-4B", "params": "4B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-4b" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B", "params": "8B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-8b" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Reranker-4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-4B", "params": "4B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507", "params": "235B-A22B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct", "params": "480B-A35B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507", "params": "235B-A22B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507", "params": "30B-A3B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507" }, { "name": "Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507", "params": "30B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct", "params": "30B-A3B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct" }, { "name": "Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507", "params": "4B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-4b-instruct-2507" }, { "name": "Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507", "params": "4B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct", "params": "80B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking", "params": "80B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Captioner", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Captioner", "params": "30B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking", "params": "30B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct", "params": "30B-A3B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct", "params": "235B-A22B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking", "params": "235B-A22B" }, { "name": "Qwen3Guard-Gen-0.6B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3Guard-Gen-0.6B", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "Qwen3Guard-Gen-4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3Guard-Gen-4B", "params": "4B" }, { "name": "Qwen3Guard-Gen-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3Guard-Gen-8B", "params": "8B" }, { "name": "Qwen3Guard-Stream-0.6B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3Guard-Stream-0.6B", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "Qwen3Guard-Stream-4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3Guard-Stream-4B", "params": "4B" }, { "name": "Qwen3Guard-Stream-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3Guard-Stream-8B", "params": "8B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-4B-SafeRL", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-SafeRL", "params": "4B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct", "params": "30B-A3B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking", "params": "30B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct", "params": "4B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-4b-instruct" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-4B-Thinking", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Thinking", "params": "4B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct", "params": "8B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking", "params": "8B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct", "params": "2B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-2b-instruct" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-2B-Thinking", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Thinking", "params": "2B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct", "params": "32B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-32b-instruct" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-32B-Thinking", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-32B-Thinking", "params": "32B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "params": "2B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-embedding-2b" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B", "params": "8B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-embedding-8b" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B", "params": "2B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-VL-Reranker-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Reranker-8B", "params": "8B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base", "params": "1.7B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice", "params": "1.7B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-tts-1-7b-customvoice" }, { "name": "Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign", "params": "1.7B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-TTS-Tokenizer-12Hz", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-Tokenizer-12Hz", "params": "not in name" }, { "name": "Qwen3-ASR-0.6B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B", "params": "0.6B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-asr-0-6b" }, { "name": "Qwen3-ASR-1.7B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B", "params": "1.7B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-asr-1-7b" }, { "name": "Qwen3-ForcedAligner-0.6B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-ForcedAligner-0.6B", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Coder-Next", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next", "params": "not in name; Hub safetensors total 79.7B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-coder-next" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Coder-Next-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next-Base", "params": "not in name; Hub safetensors total 79.7B" }, { "name": "WebWorld-14B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/WebWorld-14B", "params": "14B" }, { "name": "WebWorld-32B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/WebWorld-32B", "params": "32B" }, { "name": "WebWorld-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/WebWorld-8B", "params": "8B" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-397B-A17B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B", "params": "397B-A17B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-5-397b-a17b" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-122B-A10B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B", "params": "122B-A10B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-5-122b-a10b" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-27B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B", "params": "27B" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-35B-A3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B", "params": "35B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Base", "params": "35B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-9B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base", "params": "9B" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B", "params": "4B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-5-4b" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-4B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B-Base", "params": "4B" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-9B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B", "params": "9B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-5-9b" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-0.8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B", "params": "0.8B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-5-0-8b" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base", "params": "0.8B" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B", "params": "2B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-5-2b" }, { "name": "Qwen3.5-2B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B-Base", "params": "2B" }, { "name": "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B", "params": "35B-A3B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-6-35b-a3b" }, { "name": "Qwen3.6-27B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B", "params": "27B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-6-27b" }, { "name": "Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B", "params": "35B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B", "params": "27B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-27b" }, { "name": "Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B", "params": "2.4T-A95B" }, { "name": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "params": "125B total, 6B active, plus a 51B n-gram embedding table (publisher card); Hub safetensors total 180.0B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "name": "Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B", "params": "4B" } ], "olderCount": 109 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Alibaba Cloud (the registrant of qwen.ai per RDAP, carried from the Qwen3.8-27B check)", "domain": "qwen.ai", "domainRegistered": "2023-08-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The QwenLM/Qwen3-Embedding README links the Qwen organisation's repositories on Hugging Face.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "No changelog. The Hugging Face commit messages say what changed (EOS added by the tokeniser and Sentence Transformers integration on 6 June 2025, vLLM and TEI usage in June 2025, a README update on 20 April 2026).", "qwen.ai/.well-known/security.txt answered with a redirect on 21 October 2026, and no SECURITY.md is in the GitHub repository." ], "score": 49 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-0-6b.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Open-weight model", "b": "Open-weight model", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "IBM", "b": "Alibaba (Qwen team)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-01-21", "b": "2026-04-20", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "3/5 (4)", "b": "3.5/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Granite Embedding Small English R2's 41.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Granite Embedding Small English R2 or Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that need small, fast English retrieval embeddings on any hardware with permissive licensing", "slug": "granite-embedding-small-english-r2", "watchFor": "English only, one vector size and no task prompts" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Capability, 56 against 10", "Reach, 90 against 70", "Agent interface, 65 against 60" ], "also": [ "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need local multilingual or code retrieval embeddings on any hardware, CPU included", "slug": "qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "watchFor": "Queries need the right task instruction, and the card says leaving it out costs 1% to 5% in retrieval" } ], "job": { "capability": "embed.text", "name": "Text embeddings" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-granite-embedding-small-english-r2.json", "title": "EmbeddingGemma 300M vs Granite Embedding Small English R2", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-granite-embedding-small-english-r2" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.json", "title": "EmbeddingGemma 300M vs Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.json", "title": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-4b.json", "title": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-Embedding-4B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-4b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.json", "title": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.json", "title": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b.json", "title": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.json", "title": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small vs Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-embedding-4b.json", "title": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs Qwen3-Embedding-4B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-embedding-4b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.json", "title": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs Qwen3-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.json", "title": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b.json", "title": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 46, "edge": "qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "granite-embedding-small-english-r2": 10, "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "qwen3-embedding-0-6b": 56, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "granite-embedding-small-english-r2": 70, "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "qwen3-embedding-0-6b": 90, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "granite-embedding-small-english-r2": 55, "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "qwen3-embedding-0-6b": 55, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "granite-embedding-small-english-r2": 60, "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "qwen3-embedding-0-6b": 65, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "granite-embedding-small-english-r2": 37, "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "qwen3-embedding-0-6b": 39, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Granite Embedding Small English R2's 41.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories. Both do text embeddings.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "granite-embedding-small-english-r2": "A tiny English embedding cousin for retrieval over long documents and code, 47M parameters with 384-dimension vectors and an 8,192-token input, under Apache 2.0 with a permissive data story. It runs on any hardware through Sentence Transformers, vLLM or llama.cpp. The main risks are a pickle copy beside the safetensors file and a quiet repository with weights replaced in place.", "qwen3-embedding-0-6b": "A tiny local embedding cousin for multilingual and code retrieval, under plain Apache 2.0, that fits in under 1 GB at Q8_0 and runs in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers. Queries need a task instruction and last-token pooling. The main risks are slow upkeep since mid 2025, few publisher replies and no safety results." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Granite Embedding Small English R2's 41.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories. Both do text embeddings.\n\n- Granite Embedding Small English R2: grade E, 41.7/100, rank #100 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-embedding-small-english-r2.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-embedding-small-english-r2.json\n- Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B: grade B, 63.5/100, rank #23 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-0-6b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-embedding-0-6b.json\n- Best embedding and reranking APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/embeddings/index.md\n- All 73 embeddings comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddings/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Granite Embedding Small English R2 (E)\n\nGood for: Agents that need small, fast English retrieval embeddings on any hardware with permissive licensing\n\nWatch for: English only, one vector size and no task prompts\n\n### Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that need local multilingual or code retrieval embeddings on any hardware, CPU included\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 56 against 10\n- Reach, 90 against 70\n- Agent interface, 65 against 60\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Queries need the right task instruction, and the card says leaving it out costs 1% to 5% in retrieval\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Granite Embedding Small English R2 | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 10 | 56 | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B +46 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 70 | 90 | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B +20 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 55 | 55 | even |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 60 | 65 | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B +5 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 37 | 39 | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **41.7 · E** | **63.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Granite Embedding Small English R2 | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen team) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-01-21 | 2026-04-20 |\n| Terms last updated | | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Granite Embedding Small English R2.** A tiny English embedding cousin for retrieval over long documents and code, 47M parameters with 384-dimension vectors and an 8,192-token input, under Apache 2.0 with a permissive data story. It runs on any hardware through Sentence Transformers, vLLM or llama.cpp. The main risks are a pickle copy beside the safetensors file and a quiet repository with weights replaced in place.\n\n**Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B.** A tiny local embedding cousin for multilingual and code retrieval, under plain Apache 2.0, that fits in under 1 GB at Q8_0 and runs in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers. Queries need a task instruction and last-token pooling. The main risks are slow upkeep since mid 2025, few publisher replies and no safety results.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Granite Embedding Small English R2\n\n1. Load it with `SentenceTransformer(\"ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2\")`, or serve it with `vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2 --runner pooling` and call /v1/embeddings\n2. Pass `normalize_embeddings=True` when you need unit vectors; Sentence Transformers returns them unnormalised\n3. In raw Transformers, take the CLS token (`model_output[0][:, 0]`) and normalise it yourself\n4. Don't add query or passage prefixes; the model takes plain text\n5. Load the safetensors file and ignore pytorch_model.bin, and chunk text past 8,192 tokens\n6. Treat retrieved text as untrusted before passing it to a model\n\n### Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B\n\n1. Start it with `ollama pull qwen3-embedding:0.6b`, then POST to /api/embed with the text in `input`\n2. With llama.cpp, run `llama-server -hf Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-GGUF:Q8_0 --embedding --pooling last -ub 8192`; without `--pooling last` the vectors are wrong\n3. Prefix queries with `Instruct: \u003cone-sentence task\u003e\\nQuery:` and send documents as they are; write the instruction in English\n4. In Transformers, use left padding, take the last token's hidden state and L2-normalise it, as in the card's last_token_pool\n5. In Sentence Transformers, pass `prompt_name=\"query\"` for queries; the prompt is stored in config_sentence_transformers.json\n6. If you shorten vectors below 1,024, test retrieval quality first, since the card doesn't say how it expects them cut\n7. Retrieved documents are untrusted text; embedding them doesn't remove instructions an attacker put in them\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Granite Embedding Small English R2 or Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B?\n\nQwen3-Embedding-0.6B scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Granite Embedding Small English R2's 41.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"granite-embedding-small-english-r2\", \"b\": \"qwen3-embedding-0-6b\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare granite-embedding-small-english-r2 qwen3-embedding-0-6b`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-embedding-small-english-r2.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-embedding-0-6b.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Granite Embedding Small English R2 or Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B\n\n- [EmbeddingGemma 300M vs Granite Embedding Small English R2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-granite-embedding-small-english-r2.md)\n- [EmbeddingGemma 300M vs Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.md)\n- [Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.md)\n- [Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-Embedding-4B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-4b.md)\n- [Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-Embedding-8B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.md)\n- [Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.md)\n- [Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b.md)\n- [jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small vs Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.md)\n- [Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs Qwen3-Embedding-4B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-embedding-4b.md)\n- [Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs Qwen3-Embedding-8B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.md)\n- [Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.md)\n- [Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "attributionRequired": true, "credit": "CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link the page or API address you took it from (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-21", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.6", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "terms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", "url": "" } ], "description": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B scores 63.5 (B) to Granite Embedding Small English R2's 41.7 (E) for text embeddings. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.", "facts": [ "Granite Embedding Small English R2 E 41.7", "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B B 63.5", "scores" ], "h1": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", "image": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/og/compare-granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.png", "path": "/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "published": "2026-10-01", "section": "tools", "title": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B (2026)", "toc": null, "updated": "2026-10-21", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b" }, "tokens": { "markdown": 2250, "slim": 480 }, "version": 1 }