Qwen 3 Embedding 4B: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen 3 Embedding 4B is a embedding model by Alibaba. 2 providers serve it, from $0.019 to $0.068 /1M; the lowest price is at SiliconFlow.
How Qwen 3 Embedding 4B compares
Against the 15 embedding models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.019 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 81% of comparable models (median $0.059).
- Its 33K-token context window is larger than 67% of them (median 8K), about 50 pages of text.
- 2 providers serve it; 31% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.
Qwen 3 Embedding 4B prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 SiliconFlow | — | $0.019/1M | — | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.068/1M | $0.068/1M | — | — |
- SiliconFlow$0.019
- AIHubMix$0.068
Specs
- Type
- Embedding
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 33K≈ 50 pages of text
- Max output
- 33K
- Capabilities
- —
- Released
- Jun 3, 2025
- License
- Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 4B
- Monthly searches
- 5K
Alternatives to Qwen 3 Embedding 4B
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3 Embedding 4Bthis model | $0.019/1M | 33K | — | 2 |
| BGE M3 | $0.01/1M | — | — | 3 |
| Bge Large En V1.5 | $0.034/1M | — | — | 1 |
| Bge Large Zh V1.5 | $0.034/1M | — | — | 1 |
 Gemini Embedding | $0.02/1M | — | — | 1 |
| Text Embedding 3 Small | $0.016/1M | 8K | — | 13 |
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The lowest price for Qwen 3 Embedding 4B is $0.019 /1M, at SiliconFlow.
SiliconFlow, at $0.019 /1M. 2 providers serve Qwen 3 Embedding 4B; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen 3 Embedding 4B reads up to 33K tokens per request and writes up to 33K.
Yes. Qwen 3 Embedding 4B's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Apache 2.0 license.
About 4B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
2 API providers serve Qwen 3 Embedding 4B. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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