Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B

Apr 2025
Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B
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57.8MAEB v1 audio-only
Apr 2025released
33K tokensMax input
enLanguages

Ranking?

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1Qwen 3 VL Embedding 8B57.52Qwen 3 VL Embedding 2B54.83LCO Embedding Omni 7B54.34LCO Embedding Omni 3B545OmniEmbed v0.149
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24Qwen 2.5 Omni 7B11.825Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B10.6

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterJina Embeddings v5 Omni NanounstatedOpen×3.3—$0.02Max input: 33K tokens → 8K tokens+1OpenQwen 3 VL Embedding 8B×5.4—$0.09Languages: not verified+1BetterJina Embeddings v5 Omni SmallunstatedOpen×3.9—$0.05Languages: not verifiedBetterQwen 3 VL Embedding 2BOpen×5.2——Languages: not verifiedLBetterLCO Embedding Omni 7BunstatedOpen×5.1——Languages: not verified+1

Run it yourself

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Fits on✓ 8 GB (phone, laptop) · 8-bit✓ 16 GB · full quality✓ 24 GB GPU · full quality✓ 48 GB GPU · full quality✓ 80 GB GPU · full quality
LicenceApache-2.0commercial use with conditions

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MAEB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (159 languages)23.4#22
MAEB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (159 languages)25.7#22
MAEB v1 · Audio Pair Classification · English51.2#37
MAEB v1 · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)0.6#41
MAEB v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (150 languages)8.8#21
MAEB v1 · Audio Zero-shot Classification · English14.3#19
MAEB v1 · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)33.4#30
MAEB v1 · Audio Multilabel Classification · English14.1#36
MAEB v1 · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content57.8#29
MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over tasks · multilingual (102 languages)33.5#30
MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over task types · multilingual (102 languages)39.8#30
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Pair Classification · English51.2#37
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content57.8#29
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)0.6#41
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)33.4#30
MAEB v1 audio-only · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (4 languages)56.1#30
MVEB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (16 languages)11.4#16
MVEB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (16 languages)16.3#16
MVEB v1 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages)19.3#16
MVEB v1 · Video Zero-shot Classification · English3.8#17
MVEB v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · English0.6#16
MVEB v1 · Video Centric QA · English14.4#25
MVEB v1 · Video Pair Classification · English53.7#15
MVEB v1 · Video Clustering · English5.9#16
MVEB text video v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (16 languages)7.8#24
MVEB text video v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (16 languages)17#24
MVEB text video v1 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages)10.6#25
MVEB text video v1 · Video Zero-shot Classification · English4.1#25
MVEB text video v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · English0.4#24
MVEB text video v1 · Video Pair Classification · English54.5#26
MVEB text video v1 · Video Clustering · English7.9#19
MVEB text video v1 · Video Centric QA · English24.4#19
MVEB video v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (16 languages)30.1#25
MVEB video v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (16 languages)36.4#25
MVEB video v1 · Video Pair Classification · English55.3#24
MVEB video v1 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages)17.5#25

FAQ

How much does Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B cost?›

There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.

Is Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B free to use?›

There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B, and what is it best at?›

#24 of 27 in Multimodal.

Is Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B better than Qwen 2.5 Omni 7B?›

On MVEB text video v1 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages), Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B scores 10.6 vs 11.8 — lower.

When was Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2025-04-30. It is the current version in its line.

Is Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).

Can I run Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B locally?›

The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.

What is Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B?›

Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Alibaba (Qwen), released Apr 2025.

What are the best alternatives to Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B?›

Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano (better), Qwen 3 VL Embedding 8B (open weights).