Qwen 3 Embedding 4B

Jun 2025
Qwen 3 Embedding 4B
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$0.02per 1M tokens
68.5MTEB English v2
Jun 2025released
2,560Dimensions
33K tokensMax input

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

Full ranking →
1Seed1.6 Embedding 121591.22Arabic English Sts Matryoshka87.93Harrier OSS v1 27B87.64Qwen 3 Embedding 8B86.65Qwen 3 Embedding 4B85.66Octen Embedding 8B83.3

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Embeddings & Retrieval#5 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
CheaperQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+1%-50%$0.01Memory (4-bit): 2.4 GB → 4.5 GBBetterSeed1.6 Embedding 1215+7%——oOpenArabic English Sts Matryoshkaunstated+3%——Max input: 33K tokens → 1K tokensCheaperEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen-5%-90%$0.002Max input: 33K tokens → 2K tokensCheaperBge M3unstatedOpen-9%-50%$0.01Max input: 33K tokens → 8K tokens

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-2.0free for commercial use

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
BEIR · Mean over tasks · English61.6#8
BEIR · Mean over task types · English61.6#8
BEIR · Retrieval · English61.6#8
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over tasks · Mandarin Chinese72.3#11
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over task types · Mandarin Chinese73.5#10
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese61.3#23
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese77.9#4
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese66.1#40
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese77#11
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese75.5#15
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese83.3#18
ChemTEB · Retrieval · English74#15
ChemTEB · Clustering · English41.2#30
ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English0.3#13
ChemTEB · Pair Classification · multilingual (13 languages)64.8#8
MTEB Persian v2 · Clustering · Persian68.1#7
MTEB Persian v2 · STS · Persian81.7#4
MTEB Persian v2 · Bitext Mining · Persian61.3#17
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese53.4#20
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese87.3#2
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German61.8#5
MTEB German v1 · STS · German79#2
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (29 languages)69#4
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (29 languages)61.3#2
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)72.3#5
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English11.6#2
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)23.6#9
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)81.2#5
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)93#2
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)50.4#10
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)65.6#9
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)62#14
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)92.2#6
MTEB French v1 · STS · French86.2#2
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)68.5#6
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French88.6#2
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French72.6#6
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French31.3#24
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)70.7#7
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)60.8#9
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)85.8#36
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)90.3#6
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi85.6#5
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)49.7#19
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)76.8#2
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)74.6#2
MTEB Korean v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)77.1#6
MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering · Korean70.9#9
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean89.9#1
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean67.4#6
MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification · Korean75.3#2
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean67.3#7
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch63.7#9
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch68.5#7
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch65.1#12
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch70.7#10
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch40.2#9
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch86.1#6
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch46.5#12
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch89.1#44
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch81.5#9
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over tasks · Polish72.3#5
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over task types · Polish70.5#4
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish74.1#9
MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish49#8
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish72.1#3
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish86.9#13
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Classification · Portuguese67.7#8
MTEB Portuguese v1 · STS · Portuguese85.6#6
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese20.6#64
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English44.6#29
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese85.1#35
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English11.6#2
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English11.6#2
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English11.6#2
MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)82.7#2
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish80.1#7
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish87.2#26
MTEB Thai v1 · Classification · Thai72.4#10
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai86.7#5
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai54.3#31
MTEB Thai v1 · Reranking · Thai61.7#16
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)68.6#4
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)69.6#3
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)72.9#5
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)68.4#20
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)54.9#2
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)82.2#10
CoIR · Mean over tasks · multilingual (9 languages)79.2#7
CoIR · Mean over task types · multilingual (9 languages)79.2#7
CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages)79.2#7
CoREB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)56.5#14
CoREB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)56.5#14
CoREB v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (6 languages)60.6#14
CoREB v1 · Reranking · multilingual (6 languages)52.3#16
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (15 languages)80.1#7
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (15 languages)80.1#7
MTEB Code v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (15 languages)80.1#7
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian70.1#9
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian67.5#8
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian73.6#11
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian65.1#8
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian68.7#19
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian43.3#16
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian78.5#2
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian76.4#6
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian66.6#11
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German66.6#27
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)63.5#19
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)69.4#6
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)60.9#6
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)57.1#7
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)80.9#3
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)72.3#8
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)69.6#9
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)26.8#15
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)79.4#10
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English11.6#2
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)65.1#22
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)85.1#6

FAQ

How much does Qwen 3 Embedding 4B cost?›

$0.02 per 1M tokens.

Is Qwen 3 Embedding 4B free to use?›

There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.02 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is Qwen 3 Embedding 4B, and what is it best at?›

#5 of 200 in Embeddings. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.

Is Qwen 3 Embedding 4B better than Qwen 3 Embedding 8B?›

On MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi, Qwen 3 Embedding 4B scores 85.6 vs 86.6 — lower. It is 100% more expensive.

How can I use Qwen 3 Embedding 4B?›

Through the Alibaba (Qwen) API.

When was Qwen 3 Embedding 4B released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2025-06-05. It is the current version in its line.

Is Qwen 3 Embedding 4B open source?›

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

Can I run Qwen 3 Embedding 4B locally?›

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

What is Qwen 3 Embedding 4B?›

Qwen 3 Embedding 4B is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Alibaba (Qwen), released Jun 2025.

What are the best alternatives to Qwen 3 Embedding 4B?›

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (cheaper), Seed1.6 Embedding 1215 (better), Arabic English Sts Matryoshka (open weights).