Models

Qwen3 VL Embedding 8B

Name: Qwen3 VL Embedding 8B
Author: Alibaba Qwen

Alibaba Qwen

Catalogue only Open weights

Last reviewed: 14 Oct 2026

Sovereignty and hosting

Catalogue only

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

The checkpoint is instruction-tuned and ships a chat template. Qwen3 VL Embedding 8B is published by Alibaba Qwen as open weights with an unpublished parameter count under Apache-2.0. It turns text into vectors for retrieval instead of generating answers. The published configuration records no context window, so this card carries none. The repository was created in January 2026 and is mirrored on Hugging Face. 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: 07 Jan 2026
Tasks: Retrieval (RAG), Vision

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
instruction-tuned checkpoint with a chat template in the repository
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

Pricing

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.

Verification status

Where a field has no source, the card shows it as unverified instead of filling it in. An empty field is information.

LLM EU Verified means documented, not legally certified. It is not an AI Act conformity assessment and LLM EU is not an EU body.

Versions and variants

catalogue · Catalogue only · weights

Example request

curl https://api.llmeu.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLMEU_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen3-vl-embedding-8b","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

No playground is deployed for this model: no endpoint serves it, so a request would have nowhere to go.

Benchmarks

No published evaluation. This is a gap, not a hidden result.

Sources

Card changelog

07 Jan 2026 — Release date
14 Oct 2026 — Last reviewed

Last reviewed: 14 Oct 2026