2560-dimension embeddings — the middle of the Qwen3 retrieval line. Recall lands between the 0.6B and the 8B, and so does the price. Use it when the 0.6B misses too much and the 8B's 4096-dimension vectors cost too much to store.
Modalities
Text → Text
Input
$0.027 /1M
Output
$0.00 /1M
Cached input
$0.0027 /1M90% off
Context
33K
Speed
medium
Pricing
Pay per token. Cached input is billed at 10% of the input rate.
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Estimated monthly cost
$1.18
$0.0394 / day on Qwen3 Embedding 4B
Same workload on:
Estimates use list pricing with cached input billed at the 90%-discount rate. Actual bills depend on real token counts — every response includes its exact cost.
How it compares
Against the peers people actually weigh it against.
| Spec | Qwen3 Embedding 4B | Qwen 3.7 Flash | Qwen 3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input /1M | $0.027 | $0.0458 | $2.56 |
| Output /1M | $0.00 | $0.1987 | $7.676 |
| Context | 33K | 1M | 1M |
| Tools | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | No | Yes | Yes |
| Speed | medium | fast | medium |
Quick start
Up and running in under two minutes.
- 1
Create an API key
Sign up and grab a key from the dashboard — $0.50 free credit, no card required.
Get API key → - 2
Make your first request
Drop in your key and send a chat completion — fully OpenAI-compatible.
curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "qwen3-embedding-4b", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Explain prompt caching in one paragraph."} ] }' - 3
Stream responses
Add
"stream": trueto receive tokens as they arrive.curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "qwen3-embedding-4b", "stream": true, "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}] }'
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Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B | 33K | $0.0135 | $0.00 |
Qwen3 Embedding 8B | 33K | $0.0135 | $0.00 |
