Qwen3-VL Embedding 8B: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen3-VL Embedding 8B is a embedding model by Alibaba. 3 providers serve it, from $0.097 to $0.097 /1M; the lowest price is at SiliconFlow.
How Qwen3-VL Embedding 8B compares
Against the 15 embedding models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.097 /1M against a median of $0.059; 56% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 8K-token context window is larger than 11% of them (median 8K), about 10 pages of text.
- 3 providers serve it; 38% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.
Qwen3-VL Embedding 8B 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZenMux | $0.10/1M | Free/1M | — | 8K |
 APIYI | — | $0.0001/run | — | — |
 SiliconFlow | — | $0.097/1M | — | — |
Specs
- Type
- Embedding
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Image, Text, Video
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 8K≈ 10 pages of text
- Max output
- —
- Capabilities
- Vision
- Released
- Jan 7, 2026
- License
- Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 8.1B
Alternatives to Qwen3-VL Embedding 8B
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-VL Embedding 8Bthis model | $0.097/1M | 8K | — | 3 |
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| Bge Large Zh V1.5 | $0.034/1M | — | — | 1 |
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| Gemini Embedding 2 | $0.20/1M | 8K | — | 5 |
| Gemini Embedding 2 Preview | $0.20/1M | — | — | 3 |
| Text Embedding 3 Large | $0.104/1M | 8K | — | 13 |
| Text Embedding Ada 002 | $0.08/1M | 8K | — | 9 |
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The lowest price for Qwen3-VL Embedding 8B is $0.097 /1M, at SiliconFlow.
SiliconFlow, at $0.097 /1M. 3 providers serve Qwen3-VL Embedding 8B; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen3-VL Embedding 8B reads up to 8K tokens per request.
Yes. Qwen3-VL Embedding 8B's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Apache 2.0 license.
About 8.1B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
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