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Qwen: Qwen3 Embedding 8B

qwen/qwen3-embedding-8b

Model weights

The Qwen3 Embedding model series is the latest proprietary model of the Qwen family, specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks. 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.

Modalities

Price

$0.01/M tokens

Context

33K

Released

Oct 28, 2025

About Qwen: Qwen3 Embedding 8B

OpenRouter makes Qwen: Qwen3 Embedding 8B available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID qwen/qwen3-embedding-8b. Requests can be routed across 3 providers, including Nebius Token Factory, DeepInfra and SiliconFlow, with automatic failover when an endpoint is unavailable.

Qwen: Qwen3 Embedding 8B accepts text and returns embedding vectors. It has a 32,768-token context window and a maximum output of 32,000 tokens.

On OpenRouter, Qwen: Qwen3 Embedding 8B costs $0.01/M tokens. It was released on October 28, 2025.

More models from Qwen

  • Qwen3.8 27B
  • Qwen3 Reranker 8B
  • Qwen3 ASR 1.7B

Frequently asked questions

The Qwen3 Embedding model series is the latest proprietary model of the Qwen family, specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks. This series inherits the exceptional multilingual capabilities, long-text understanding, and reasoning skills of its foundational model.

Qwen3 Embedding 8B costs $0.01/M tokens.

Qwen3 Embedding 8B accepts up to 32,768 tokens per input. Longer text has to be split into multiple inputs.

Qwen3 Embedding 8B accepts text as input and returns embedding vectors.

Qwen3 Embedding 8B is served by 3 providers on OpenRouter: Nebius Token Factory, DeepInfra and SiliconFlow. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

Qwen3 Embedding 8B was released on October 28, 2025.

ProvidersPricingPerformanceUptimeAppsActivityFAQ

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

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99.94%
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98.66%
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99.83%
Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.99%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.99%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.98%
Without Routing
99.63%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

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