models/Alibaba Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6b

Qwen3-Embedding-0.6b

embedding

The Qwen3 Embedding model series is the latest proprietary model of the Qwen family, specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks.

slug · qwen/qwen3-embedding-0.6bprovider · Alibaba Qwenfamily · Qwenreleased · 2025-06-18

Quickstart

curl https://api.aigateway.sh/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIGATEWAY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen/qwen3-embedding-0.6b","input":"hello"}'

Capabilities

CONTEXT
8,192 tok

Strengths

  • Semantic similarity
  • Vector search

Use cases

RAGSemantic searchRecommendation

Pricing

Input$0.012 / 1M tokens
You pay pass-through · 5% applied at credit top-up, not per-call.
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Collections

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API schema

Call Qwen3-Embedding-0.6b from any OpenAI SDK

POST https://api.aigateway.sh/v1/embeddings·Content-Type: application/json·Auth: Bearer sk-aig-...

Request body

json
{
  "model": "qwen/qwen3-embedding-0.6b",
  "input": "Text to embed, or an array of strings for batch."
}

Response

json
{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "object": "embedding",
      "index": 0,
      "embedding": [0.0123, -0.0456, 0.0789, /* ... */]
    }
  ],
  "model": "qwen/qwen3-embedding-0.6b",
  "usage": { "prompt_tokens": 5, "total_tokens": 5 }
}

Quickstart

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1", api_key="sk-aig-...")

r = client.embeddings.create(model="qwen/qwen3-embedding-0.6b", input="hello world")
print(r.data[0].embedding[:5])

Errors

401authentication_errorInvalid or missing API key
402insufficient_creditsWallet empty (PAYG only)
404not_foundUnknown model or endpoint
429rate_limit_errorOver per-minute limit — see Retry-After header
500server_errorUpstream provider failed (retryable)
503service_unavailableUpstream saturated (retryable)
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