Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B
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Sovereignty and hosting
This model is catalogued for reference. It is not hosted on LLM EU yet, and no first-party endpoint serves it here. Requests to it go to the provider directly, under that provider's own terms.
Summary
It turns text into vectors for retrieval instead of generating answers. Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B is an open-weight embedding model from Alibaba Qwen with an unpublished parameter count, published under Apache-2.0. The published configuration records no context window, so this card carries none. The repository was created in May 2025 and is mirrored on Hugging Face. It is a base checkpoint without instruction tuning. The card is catalogue-only: LLM EU does not run this model. The publisher states no language coverage on the model page.
Specifications
- Provider
- Alibaba Qwen (CN)
- Context window
- Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim.
- Parameters
- Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim.
- Modalities
- text, embedding
- License
- apache-2.0 · licence
- Open weights
- yes
- Release date
- 29 May 2025
- Tasks
- Retrieval (RAG), Low cost, Multilingual support
Languages
Strong: —
Adequate: —
Strong
Adequate
Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. — a language is listed as strong only where a source claims it; the card links the evidence where one exists.
When to use it
Strengths
- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- Apache-2.0 licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- produces embeddings that a European operator can run next to its own vector store
Limits
- catalogue only — LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- the publisher states no parameter count in the harvested record
- the hardware footprint cannot be estimated because no parameter count is published