Qwen 3 Embedding 4B
Qwen 3 Embedding 4B is an embedding model from Qwen released on Jan 1, 2025. It reads text and writes vectors, with a 32K token context window.
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It costs $0.01 per million input tokens, with no charge for output.
Its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
3 providers serve it, including Hugging Face, Vercel AI Gateway and Inference.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.01 / $0 per 1M
- Context
- 32K
- Max output
- 2K
- Released
- Jan 1, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Dec 2024
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen 3 Embedding 4B pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.01 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0 / 1M tokens |
Qwen 3 Embedding 4B providers
3 providers serve it, including Hugging Face, Vercel AI Gateway and Inference. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | $0.01 | $0 | – | 32K | 2K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | n/a | n/a | – | 33K | 33K |
| Inference | $0.01 | $0 | – | 32K | 2K |
What Qwen 3 Embedding 4B costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
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Qwen 3 Embedding 4B questions
How much does the Qwen 3 Embedding 4B API cost?
$0.01 per million input tokens and $0 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Qwen 3 Embedding 4B?
32,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 2,048 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Qwen 3 Embedding 4B?
3 providers serve it, including Hugging Face, Vercel AI Gateway and Inference. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Is Qwen 3 Embedding 4B open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Qwen 3 Embedding 4B released?
Jan 1, 2025, with training data up to Dec 2024.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Qwen 3 Embedding 4B?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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