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jina-embeddings-text-small-text-matching

Embeddings jinaai Embeddings 2 builds Non-commercial 11k dl/mo

jina-embeddings-text-small-text-matching is an open-weight embedding model from jinaai. jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching-GGUF (GGUF) weighs 397 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching is a multilingual text embedding model developed by jinaai for the sentence-similarity task.
  • It features 596M parameters, a context length of 32768 tokens, and is licensed under cc-by-nc-4.0.

Summary of the jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.

What it is

Released byjinaai
Released2026-02-10
Parameters596M
VRAM397 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching-GGUF (GGUF)

397 MBweights, file size
1.1 GBruntime overhead
CardRunsMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching ↗
14 builds: IQ1_S 208 MB … F16 1.2 GB
596MBF16 397 MBRTX 3060 12 GB
jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching-GGUF (above) ↗
14 builds: IQ1_S 208 MB … F16 1.2 GB
—GGUF 397 MBRTX 3060 12 GB

From the model card

What jinaai says about jina-embeddings-text-small-text-matching

Read the model card

jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching: Text-Matching-Targeted Embedding Distillation

Elastic Inference Service | ArXiv | Release Note | Blog

Model Overview

jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-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-nano, a smaller model for more resource-constrained use cases.

Trained using a novel approach that combines distillation with task-specific contrastive losses, jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching outperforms existing state-of-the-art models of similar size across diverse embedding benchmarks.

FeatureValue
Parameters677M
Supported Taskstext-matching
Max Sequence Length32768
Embedding Dimension1024
Matryoshka Dimensions32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 768, 1024
Pooling StrategyLast-token pooling
Base Modeljinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small

Training and Evaluation

For training details and evaluation results, see our technical report.

Usage

The following Python packages are required:

  • transformers>=5.1.0
  • torch>=2.8.0
  • peft>=0.15.2
  • vllm>=0.15.1

Optional / Recommended

  • flash-attention: Installing flash-attention is recommended for improved inference speed and efficiency, but not mandatory.
  • sentence-transformers: If you want to use the model via the sentence-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-small"
  }
}

See the Elastic Inference Service documentation for setup details.

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
import torch

model = SentenceTransformer(
    "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching",
    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, 1024)

similarity = model.similarity(embeddings[0], embeddings[1:])
print(similarity)
# tensor([[0.7833, 0.8926, 0.9333, 0.9421, 0.7588, 0.9068, 0.9301, 0.8521, 0.8768]])
from vllm import LLM
from vllm.config.pooler import PoolerConfig

# Initialize model
name = "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching"
model = LLM(
    model=name,
    dtype="float16",
    runner="pooling",
    pooler_config=PoolerConfig(seq_pooling_type="LAST", normalize=True)
)

# Create text prompts
document1 = "Overview of climate change impacts on coastal cities"
document1_prompt = f"Document: {document1}"

document2 = "The impacts of climate change on large cities"
document2_prompt = f"Document: {document2}"

# Encode all prompts
prompts = [document1_prompt, document2_prompt]
outputs = model.encode(prompts, pooling_task="embed")

embed_document1 = outputs[0].outputs.data
embed_document2 = outputs[1].outputs.data
  • Via Docker on CPU:
    docker run -p 8080:80 \
      ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:cpu-1.9 \
      --model-id jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching \
      --dtype float32 --pooling last-token
    
  • Via Docker on NVIDIA GPU (Turing, Ampere, Ada Lovelace, Hopper or Blackwell):
    docker run --gpus all --shm-size 1g -p 8080:80 \
      ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:cuda-1.9 \
      --model-id jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching \
      --dtype float16 --pooling last-token
    

Alternatively, you can also run with cargo, more information can be found in the Text Embeddings Inference documentation.

Send a request to /v1/embeddings to generate embeddings via the OpenAI Embeddings API:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching",
    "input": [
      "Document: The impacts of climate change on coastal cities are significant...",
    ]
  }'

Or rather via the Text Embeddings Inference API specification instead, to prevent from manually formatting the inputs:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8080/embed \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "inputs": "Overview of climate change impacts on coastal cities",
    "prompt_name": "document",
  }'

After installing llama.cpp one can run llama-server to host the embedding model as

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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