{ "data": { "a": { "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; 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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" }, "answer": "Qwen3-Embedding-8B scores 74.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B's 63.5 (B), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. 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Neither the safetensors nor the GGUF repository is gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 15.2 GB for the BF16 files and 4.7 GB for Qwen's own Q4_K_M GGUF. 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{ "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-8b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b.json", "title": "Qwen3-Embedding-8B vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-8b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 30, "edge": "qwen3-embedding-8b", "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "qwen3-embedding-0-6b": 56, "qwen3-embedding-8b": 86, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "qwen3-embedding-8b", "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "qwen3-embedding-0-6b": 90, "qwen3-embedding-8b": 100, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "qwen3-embedding-0-6b": 55, "qwen3-embedding-8b": 55, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "qwen3-embedding-0-6b": 65, "qwen3-embedding-8b": 65, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "qwen3-embedding-0-6b": 39, "qwen3-embedding-8b": 21, "weight": 10 } ], 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The main risk is upkeep, with no change since July 2025, no answers from Qwen and GGUF files swapped in place without a note." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "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-embedding-8b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Qwen3-Embedding-8B scores 74.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B's 63.5 (B), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B leads on documentation and upkeep. Both do text embeddings.\n\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- Qwen3-Embedding-8B: grade BB, 74.7/100, rank #1 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-8b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-embedding-8b.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### 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- Documentation and upkeep, 39 against 21\n\nWatch for: Queries need the right task instruction, and the card says leaving it out costs 1% to 5% in retrieval\n\n### Qwen3-Embedding-8B (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that need local multilingual text or code retrieval on a modest GPU or CPU, with the widest runtime support and a plain licence.\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 86 against 56\n- Reach, 100 against 90\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: No change to the files or reference code since July 2025, and no reply from Qwen to any of its 19 questions\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B | Qwen3-Embedding-8B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 56 | 86 | Qwen3-Embedding-8B +30 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 90 | 100 | Qwen3-Embedding-8B +10 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 55 | 55 | even |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 65 | 65 | even |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 39 | 21 | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B +18 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.5 · B** | **74.7 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B | Qwen3-Embedding-8B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Alibaba (Qwen team) | 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 | 2026-04-20 | 2025-07-15 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 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 | 3.5/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Qwen3-Embedding-8B.** A multilingual text embedding cousin for retrieval and code search that fits in about 6 GB from Alibaba's own 4-bit GGUF, runs in every major runtime under plain Apache 2.0 and has several hosts. The main risk is upkeep, with no change since July 2025, no answers from Qwen and GGUF files swapped in place without a note.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Qwen3-Embedding-8B\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama pull qwen3-embedding:8b`, then POST to /api/embed\n2. With llama.cpp use Qwen's GGUF and `llama-server -hf Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --embedding --pooling last -ub 8192`, the flags the GGUF card gives\n3. Prefix each query with `Instruct: \u003cone-sentence task\u003e\\nQuery:` and embed documents with no prefix, the card says leaving it off costs 1 to 5 per cent\n4. Write instructions in English even for other languages, as the card advises\n5. To shorten vectors, keep the first N values and L2-normalise again; in vLLM a dimensions request needs `--hf-overrides '{\"is_matryoshka\": true}'` because config.json doesn't declare it\n6. Pad on the left if you pool yourself, and run in BF16 rather than float16, where a discussion reports NaN outputs\n7. Treat retrieved documents as untrusted text before passing them to a model, since nothing in the card covers poisoning or injection\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B or Qwen3-Embedding-8B?\n\nQwen3-Embedding-8B scores 74.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B's 63.5 (B), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B leads on documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"qwen3-embedding-0-6b\", \"b\": \"qwen3-embedding-8b\"}`. 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