LLM Reference

Qwen3 Embedding 8B

qwen3-embedding-8b

Researched today

Last refreshed 2026-05-22. Next refresh: weekly.

Qwen3 Embedding 8B is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Coding task fit, 1 tracked provider route, and research from 2026-05-22.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 33K context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows

Cheapest output

-

Novita AI per 1M tokens

Provider routes

1

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-05-22

Researched today

fresh

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Novita AI$0.070-
ServerlessPartial

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

Qwen3 Embedding 8B is Alibaba's large multilingual text embedding model from the Qwen3 generation, supporting 119 languages. Open-sourced under Apache 2.0. Achieves SOTA performance on MTEB multilingual benchmarks. Part of the Qwen3-Embedding series released June 2025.

Qwen3 Embedding 8B has a 32K-token context window.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Rankings

Specifications

Released2025-06-06
Parameters8B
Context33K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Specializationembedding
LicenseApache 2.0
Trainingpretrained

Created by

AI research institute of Alibaba Group.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2017
Website

Providers(1)