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Qwen Cloud's model-selection docs list text-embedding-v4, tongyi-embedding-vision-plus and qwen3-rerank for search, RAG and retrieval accuracy improvement.

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At a glance

Overview
Qwen Cloud's retrieval model line for text embeddings, multimodal embeddings and reranking.
Best fit
Teams building RAG, semantic search or ranking pipelines around Chinese and multilingual content.
Trust
1/1 sources verified · 2026-05-17
Coverage
96/100 · backfill: sources

Editorial verdict

Best for

Teams building RAG, semantic search or ranking pipelines around Chinese and multilingual content.

Avoid if

Avoid choosing it only from model specs; run corpus-level retrieval checks first.

Why it matters

Qwen Cloud includes retrieval infrastructure models, so Qwen coverage should include more than chat and generation.

Pricing

Pay-as-you-go retrieval API billing varies by model

Payment

Qwen Cloud billing, Pay-as-you-go API billing

Commercial use

Commercial use should follow the current product, API, model license and billing terms.

Privacy

Review prompt, file, media upload, retention and training-use terms before sensitive workloads.

Use-case fit

RAG retrieval

Strong

Use embeddings and rerankers to build retrieval and answer pipelines.

Multimodal search

Medium

Use multimodal embedding when text and image search need one retrieval layer.

Global user checklist

RegistrationConfirmedAvailable through Qwen Cloud model APIs.
English UIConfirmedDocs are English-facing.
API and docsConfirmedModel-selection docs list embedding and reranking categories.
Data and privacy termsPartialCheck retention and indexing terms before embedding private corpora.
Coverage · 96/100 · backfill: sources

This profile is stale enough to recheck before commercial use.

Pros

  • - Text, vision embedding and rerank models are documented
  • - Useful for RAG systems on the same Qwen Cloud account

Cons

  • - Retrieval quality should be benchmarked on your own corpus

Decision paths

qwen

deepseek

zhipu-glm

Sources

Qwen Cloud model selection

docs · en · verified 2026-05-17

Lists text-embedding-v4, tongyi-embedding-vision-plus and qwen3-rerank.

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