ai/qwen3-embedding repository overview

⁠Qwen3-Embedding

The Qwen3 Embedding model series is the latest proprietary model of the Qwen family, specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks. Building upon the dense foundational models of the Qwen3 series, it provides a comprehensive range of text embeddings and reranking models in various sizes (0.6B, 4B, and 8B). This series inherits the exceptional multilingual capabilities, long-text understanding, and reasoning skills of its foundational model. The Qwen3 Embedding series represents significant advancements in multiple text embedding and ranking tasks, including text retrieval, code retrieval, text classification, text clustering, and bitext mining.

⁠📌 Characteristics

⁠Available model variants

¹: VRAM estimated based on model characteristics.

⁠🐳 Using this model with Docker Model Runner

First, pull the model:

docker model pull ai/qwen3-embedding

Then run the model:

curl --location 'http://localhost:12434/engines/llama.cpp/v1/embeddings' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "model": "ai/qwen3-embedding",
    "input": "hello world!"
  }'

For more information, check out the Docker Model Runner docs⁠.

⁠MTEB (Multilingual)

⁠🔗 Links

• Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B⁠
• Qwen3-Embedding 4B⁠
• Qwen3-Embedding 8B⁠