Embedding Models/Qwen3-Embedding-8B

Qwen3-Embedding-8B by Qwen — 4096D

State-of-the-art multilingual text embedding model. #1 on MTEB multilingual leaderboard. Supports 100+ languages including programming languages, with flexible output dimensions from 32 to 4096.

At a glance

Modalities

Dimensions

4K

Max tokens

33K

Parameters

8B

Price / 1M tokens

Type

Dense

Matryoshka dimensions

3264128256512102420484096

Output types

Single VectorMulti Vector

Language support

🌍 Multilingual support (100+ languages)

Benchmarks

MTEB MULTILINGUAL 70.58
MTEB EN V2 75.22
CMTEB CHINESE 73.84

Details

Release date 2025-06-05
License Apache 2.0
Model ID qwen3-embedding-8b
Provider Qwen

Tags

text-embeddingmultilinguallong-contextmatryoshkainstruction-awareopen-source

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