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drawais/
Qwen3-Embedding-8B-AWQ-INT4

Name: Qwen3-Embedding-8B-AWQ-INT4
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Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B

quantized

apache-2.0

text-generation-inference

endpoints_compatible

compressed-tensors

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Qwen3-Embedding-8B-AWQ-INT4

INT4 weight-only quantization of Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B.

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B in INT4. About 5 GB on disk. Runs on an 8 GB consumer GPU.

Property	Value
Base model	Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B
Quantization	INT4 weight-only
Approx. on-disk size	~6.1 GB
License	Apache License, Version 2.0
Languages	English

Load (vLLM)

bash

vllm serve drawais/Qwen3-Embedding-8B-AWQ-INT4 \
  --max-model-len 32768 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.94

python

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
llm = LLM(model="drawais/Qwen3-Embedding-8B-AWQ-INT4", max_model_len=32768)
print(llm.generate(["Hello!"], SamplingParams(max_tokens=128))[0].outputs[0].text)

Footprint

~6.1 GB on disk. Recommended VRAM: enough headroom for KV cache.

License & attribution

This artifact is a derivative work of Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B, released by its original authors under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

This artifact is distributed under the same license. The full license text is included in LICENSE, and required attribution is in NOTICE.

License text: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Source model: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B