Qwen3-VL Embedding 8B

by Alibaba (Qwen)Embedding

Embedding model for semantic search, retrieval, clustering, and ranking pipelines

Context
32K tokens
Max output
4,096 tokens
Parameters
8.1B total
Released
2026-02-05
Weights
Open
Licence
apache-2.0

Weights on Hugging Face

alibaba/qwen3-vl-embedding-8b · also seen as Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B

Specifications

Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.

Released
2026-02-05
Weights
Opennot gated
License
apache-2.0
Input
Text, Image
Output
Embeddings
Context window
32,000 max across endpoints
Max output
4,096
Providers
1
Epoch Capabilities Index
not evaluated
Direct price range
$0.09 in · $0.09 out per 1M tokens · from its one provider
More details
Last updated
2026-02-05
Knowledge cutoff
Weights link
Hugging Face · Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B
Parameters
8.1B total
Base model
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

Capabilities

Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.

  • Tool calling
  • Parallel toolsunknown
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Image input
  • PDF input
  • Audio input
  • Audio outputunknown
  • Video input
  • Prompt cachingunknown
  • Web searchunknown
  • Computer useunknown
  • System messagesunknown
  • Assistant prefillunknown
  • Temperature
  • Streamingunknown
  • Attachments

Endpoints

One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.

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Price history

No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.09 in / $0.09 out per 1M tokens at STACKIT on every data refresh since then.

Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON

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