Embedding model for semantic search, retrieval, clustering, and ranking pipelines
Qwen3-Embedding-8B by alibaba is offered by 7 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 5 of them. Its reference price is $0.115 per 1M tokens. The lowest paid channel is Hugging Face at $0.01 / $0 per 1M, about 12× below the reference price. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
The context window is 40,960 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 32,000 to 40,960, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-12.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InferX Qwen3-Embedding-8B | Gateway | Free | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | — | ||
| Hugging Face Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B | Cloud | $0.01 | $0 | — | — | 32,000 ⚠ | 4,096 | |
| Nebius Token Factory Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B | Cloud | $0.01 | $0 | — | — | 40,960 | — | |
| Scaleway | Cloud | $0.10 | $0 | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 4,096 | |
| Regolo AI | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.10 | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| evroc Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B | Cloud | $0.12 | $0.12 | — | — | 40,960 | 4,096 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | — | — | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 32,768 | hostTable.undisclosed |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
1 more channels offer $0 (InferX); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.