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jina-embeddings-text-nano-text-matching is an open-weight embedding model from jinaai. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Released by | jinaai |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Task | Embeddings |
| Parameters (lead) | 212M |
| Context | 8k tokens |
| Runs with | llama.cpp |
| Based on | jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano |
| Released | 2026-02-10 |
| Popularity | 2k downloads / month |
| Licence | Commercial licence needed |
About
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jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-text-matching is a compact, high-performance text embedding model designed for text-matching.
It is part of the jina-embeddings-v5-text model family, which also includes jina-embeddings-v5-text-small, for better performance at a bigger size.
Trained using a novel approach that combines distillation with task-specific contrastive losses, jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-text-matching outperforms existing state-of-the-art models of similar size across diverse embedding benchmarks.
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Parameters | 239M |
| Supported Tasks | text-matching |
| Max Sequence Length | 8192 |
| Embedding Dimension | 768 |
| Matryoshka Dimensions | 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 768 |
| Pooling Strategy | Last-token pooling |
| Base Model | jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano |
For training details and evaluation results, see our technical report.
The following Python packages are required:
transformers>=5.1.0torch>=2.8.0peft>=0.15.2vllm==0.15.1sentence-transformers interface, install this package as well.The fastest way to use v5-text in production. Elastic Inference Service (EIS) provides managed embedding inference with built-in scaling, so you can generate embeddings directly within your Elastic deployment.
PUT _inference/text_embedding/jina-v5
{
"service": "elastic",
"service_settings": {
"model_id": "jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano"
}
}
See the Elastic Inference Service documentation for setup details.
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
import torch
model = SentenceTransformer(
"jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-text-matching",
trust_remote_code=True,
model_kwargs={"dtype": torch.bfloat16}, # Recommended for GPUs
config_kwargs={"_attn_implementation": "flash_attention_2"}, # Recommended but optional
)
# Optional: set truncate_dim in encode() to control embedding size
texts = [
"A beautiful sunset over the beach", # English
"غروب جميل على الشاطئ", # Arabic
"海滩上美丽的日落", # Chinese
"Un beau coucher de soleil sur la plage", # French
"Ein wunderschöner Sonnenuntergang am Strand", # German
"Ένα όμορφο ηλιοβασίλεμα πάνω από την παραλία", # Greek
"समुद्र तट पर एक खूबसूरत सूर्यास्त", # Hindi
"Un bellissimo tramonto sulla spiaggia", # Italian
"浜辺に沈む美しい夕日", # Japanese
"해변 위로 아름다운 일몰", # Korean
]
# Encode texts
embeddings = model.encode(texts)
print(embeddings.shape)
# (10, 768)
similarity = model.similarity(embeddings[0], embeddings[1:])
print(similarity)
# tensor([[0.8945, 0.9386, 0.9339, 0.9439, 0.7339, 0.9303, 0.9291, 0.9404, 0.9317]])
from vllm import LLM
from vllm.config.pooler import PoolerConfig
# Initialize model
name = "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-text-matching"
model = LLM(
model=name,
dtype="float16",
runner="pooling",
trust_remote_code=True,
pooler_config=PoolerConfig(seq_pooling_type="LAST", normalize=True)
)
# Create text prompts
query = "Overview of climate change impacts on coastal cities"
query_prompt = f"Query: {query}"
document = "The impacts of climate change on coastal cities are significant.."
document_prompt = f"Document: {document}"
# Encode all prompts
prompts = [query_prompt, document_prompt]
outputs = model.encode(prompts, pooling_task="embed")
embed_query = outputs[0].outputs.data
embed_document = outputs[1].outputs.data
Since our nano model is based on jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano, which is not yet supported by llama.cpp, we provide our own branch of llama.cpp, which implements the necessary changes to support it for now.
To start the OpenAI API compatible HTTP server, run with the respective model version:
llama-server \
-hf jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-text-matching:F16 \
--embedding \
--pooling last \
--batch-size 8192 \
--ubatch-size 8192 \
--ctx-size 8192
Client:
curl -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1/embeddings" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"input": [
"Document: A beautiful sunset over the beach",
"Document: Un beau coucher de soleil sur la plage",
"Document: 海滩上美丽的日落",
"Document: 浜辺に沈む美しい夕日",
"Document: Golden sunlight melts into the horizon, painting waves in warm amber and rose, while the sky whispers goodnight to the quiet, endless sea."
]
}'
Note: For the text-matching variant, always add Document: prefix in front of your input as shown above.
You can run the ONNX-optimized version of the model locally using Hugging Face's optimum library. Make sure you have the required dependencies installed (e.g., pip install optimum[onnxruntime] transformers torch):
from optimum.onnxruntime import ORTModelForFeatureExtraction
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
import torch
model_id = "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-text-matching"
# 1. Load tokenizer and ONNX model
# We specify the subfolder 'onnx' where the weights are located
tokenizer = AutoTokFrom the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys jina-embeddings-text-nano-text-matching for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (jina-embeddings-text-nano-text-matching below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/embeddings \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"jina-embeddings-text-nano-text-matching","input":"text to embed"}'
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