Is Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B SOTA? Yes, in Embeddings

Q: Is Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B state of the art?

Yes. SOTA in co-SOTA in Embeddings. As of Oct 13, 2026, Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B from Alibaba / Qwen. SOTA in co-SOTA in Embeddings. Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B is tied for SOTA in Embeddings with Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511, Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B, within the margin of error, since 2026-04-01.

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Is Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B state of the art?

Yes.SOTA in co-SOTA in Embeddings.

As of Oct 13, 2026, Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B from Alibaba / Qwen. SOTA in co-SOTA in Embeddings. Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B is tied for SOTA in Embeddings with Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511, Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B, within the margin of error, since 2026-04-01.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 13, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: medium

EmbeddingsCo-SOTA#3 · 195d Embeddings · open-weightsCo-SOTA#3 · 195d Embeddings · le-32bCo-SOTA#3 · 195d

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Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B is tied for SOTA in Embeddings with Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511, Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B, within the margin of error, since 2026-04-01.

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Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot

Source	Score	Date	Type	Receipt
MTEB Multilingual v2 (MMTEB) Qwen-Qwen3-Embedding-8B	0.7058388101663448	2025-06-05	INDEP.	snap_c574366f6edb

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