# Qwen Embedding

> Alibaba's Apache 2.0 multilingual embedding and reranking models

- Category: [Foundation Models](https://ailandscape.org/category/foundation-models) › Embedding Models
- Homepage: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B
- Repository: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Embedding
- Tags: embeddings, multilingual, retrieval, open-weights
- Also known as: Qwen3-Embedding
- Added to the landscape: 2026-10-09

## Similar tools in Embedding Models

- [ALIGN](https://ailandscape.org/tool/align): Google's large-scale visual-language embedding model
- [BGE-M3](https://ailandscape.org/tool/bge-m3): BAAI's multilingual dense, sparse, and multi-vector embeddings
- [CLIP](https://ailandscape.org/tool/clip): OpenAI's contrastive image-text embedding model
- [Cohere Embed](https://ailandscape.org/tool/cohere-embed): Cohere's multilingual, multimodal embedding models
- [E5](https://ailandscape.org/tool/e5): Microsoft's instruction-tuned text embedding model family
- [EmbeddingGemma](https://ailandscape.org/tool/embeddinggemma): Google's on-device multilingual embedding models built on Gemma
- [Gemini Embedding](https://ailandscape.org/tool/gemini-embedding): Google's API embedding models, near the top of MTEB
- [ImageBind](https://ailandscape.org/tool/imagebind): Meta's unified embedding across 6 modalities

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