Qwen3 VL Embedding 2B is Alibaba's embedding model. A multimodal vision-language embedding model in the Qwen3 series, designed to generate text embeddings from both image and text inputs.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-vl-2b
TypeEmbedding
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesEmbedding
Parameters2B

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text·
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 VL Embedding 2B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 5 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
Standard_NV4as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.233/hr
g4ad.xlargeAWSRadeon Pro V5208 GB$0.379/hr
g5g.xlargeAWST4g16 GB$0.420/hr
7 more instances can run Qwen3 VL Embedding 2B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B1.0M$2.00$6.00Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime$0.413$4.13Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus Realtime$0.688$5.50Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSAvailable
Qwen Image 3Available
Qwen Image 3.0 ProAvailable
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B InstructAvailable
DeepSeek R1 Qwen3 8BAvailable
Qwen3.8 27B1.0M$0.425$2.55Available
Qwen3.8 Max1.0M$1.65$4.99Available
Qwen3 VL Embedding 2BCurrent

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-vl-2b
huggingface-textembedding-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b