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Qwen3 Embedding 8B


Qwen3 Embedding 8B is Alibaba logoAlibaba's embedding model with a 41K context window and up to 4K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.050 / 1M input and $N/A / 1M output. An 8B parameter text embedding model from the Qwen3 family, specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks with strong multilingual retrieval performance.
Spec
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-8b-embedding
TypeEmbedding
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window41K tokens
Max Output4K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesEmbedding
Parameters8B
Release Date · 11 months ago

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·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen3-embedding-8b
$0.050
Novita logo
Novita
qwen/qwen3-embedding-8b
$0.070

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Text Embedding 0052K$0.025$0.000Available
Embed 4128K$0.120$0.470Available
Embed 4128K$0.120$0.000Available
NV Embed QA 4$0.100$0.100Available
Text Embedding 42K$0.100$0.000Deprecated
Voyage 432K$0.060$0.000Available
Voyage 4 Large32K$0.120$0.000Available
Voyage 4 Lite32K$0.020$0.000Available
Text Embedding 3.7 Large Exp8K$0.100$0.000Available
Voyage 3.532K$0.060$0.000Available
Qwen3 Embedding 8B41K$0.050$0.000Current

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