Model reference · open weights
jina-embeddings is an open-weight embedding model from jinaai. jina-embeddings-v3-hf (BF16) weighs 1.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the jinaai/jina-embeddings-v3 model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.
What it is
| Released by | jinaai |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-09-05 |
| Parameters | 572M |
| VRAM | 1.1 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Runs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| jina-embeddings-v3 ↗ | 572M | BF16 | 1.1 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
| jina-embeddings-v3-hf (above) ↗ | 559M | BF16 | 1.1 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
From the model card
Blog | Azure | AWS SageMaker | API
jina-embeddings-v3 is a multilingual multi-task text embedding model designed for a variety of NLP applications.
Based on the Jina-XLM-RoBERTa architecture,
this model supports Rotary Position Embeddings to handle long input sequences up to 8192 tokens.
Additionally, it features 5 LoRA adapters to generate task-specific embeddings efficiently.
task argument with the following options:
retrieval.query: Used for query embeddings in asymmetric retrieval tasksretrieval.passage: Used for passage embeddings in asymmetric retrieval tasksseparation: Used for embeddings in clustering and re-ranking applicationsclassification: Used for embeddings in classification taskstext-matching: Used for embeddings in tasks that quantify similarity between two texts, such as STS or symmetric retrieval tasks32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 768, 1024), allowing for truncating embeddings to fit your application.While the foundation model supports 100 languages, we've focused our tuning efforts on the following 30 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
⚠️ Important Notice: We fixed a bug in the
encodefunction #60 where Matryoshka embedding truncation occurred after normalization, leading to non-normalized truncated embeddings. This issue has been resolved in the latest code revision.If you have encoded data using the previous version and wish to maintain consistency, please use the specific code revision when loading the model:
AutoModel.from_pretrained('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v3', code_revision='da863dd04a4e5dce6814c6625adfba87b83838aa', ...)
Apply mean pooling when integrating the model.
Mean pooling takes all token embeddings from the model's output and averages them at the sentence or paragraph level. This approach has been shown to produce high-quality sentence embeddings.
We provide an encode function that handles this for you automatically.
However, if you're working with the model directly, outside of the encode function,
you'll need to apply mean pooling manually. Here's how you can do it:
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
def mean_pooling(model_output, attention_mask):
token_embeddings = model_output[0]
input_mask_expanded = (
attention_mask.unsqueeze(-1).expand(token_embeddings.size()).float()
)
return torch.sum(token_embeddings * input_mask_expanded, 1) / torch.clamp(
input_mask_expanded.sum(1), min=1e-9
)
sentences = ["How is the weather today?", "What is the current weather like today?"]
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("jinaai/jina-embeddings-v3")
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("jinaai/jina-embeddings-v3", trust_remote_code=True)
encoded_input = tokenizer(sentences, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors="pt")
task = 'retrieval.query'
task_id = model._adaptation_map[task]
adapter_mask = torch.full((len(sentences),), task_id, dtype=torch.int32)
with torch.no_grad():
model_output = model(**encoded_input, adapter_mask=adapter_mask)
embeddings = mean_pooling(model_output, encoded_input["attention_mask"])
embeddings = F.normalize(embeddings, p=2, dim=1)
The easiest way to start using jina-embeddings-v3 is with the Jina Embedding API.
Alternatively, you can use jina-embeddings-v3 directly via Transformers package:
!pip install transformers torch einops
!pip install 'numpy<2'
If you run it on a GPU that support FlashAttention-2. By 2024.9.12, it supports Ampere, Ada, or Hopper GPUs (e.g., A100, RTX 3090, RTX 4090, H100),
!pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
from transformers import AutoModel
# Initialize the model
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("jinaai/jina-embeddings-v3", trust_remote_code=True)
texts = [
"Follow the white rabbit.", # English
"Sigue al conejo blanco.", # Spanish
"Suis le lapin blanc.", # French
"跟着白兔走。", # Chinese
"اتبع الأرنب الأبيض.", # Arabic
"Folge dem weißen Kaninchen.", # German
]
# When calling the `encode` function, you can choose a `task` based on the use case:
# 'retrieval.query', 'retrieval.passage', 'separation', 'classification', 'text-matching'
# Alternatively, you can choose not to pass a `task`, and no specific LoRA adapter will be used.
embeddings = model.encode(texts, task="text-matching")
# Compute similarities
print(embeddings[0] @ embeddings[1].T)
By default, the model supports a maximum sequence length of 8192 tokens.
However, if you want to truncate your input texts to a shorter length, you can pass the max_length parameter to the encode function:
embeddings = model.encode(["Very long ... document"], max_length=2048)
In case you want to use Matryoshka embeddings and switch to a different dimension, you can adjust it by passing th
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
Benchmarks
As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| STS | MTEB AFQMC (default) | cosine_pearson | 41.742 |
| STS | MTEB AFQMC (default) | cosine_spearman | 43.473 |
| STS | MTEB AFQMC (default) | euclidean_pearson | 42.245 |
| STS | MTEB AFQMC (default) | euclidean_spearman | 43.525 |
| STS | MTEB AFQMC (default) | main_score | 43.473 |
| STS | MTEB AFQMC (default) | manhattan_pearson | 42.046 |
| STS | MTEB AFQMC (default) | manhattan_spearman | 43.309 |
| STS | MTEB AFQMC (default) | pearson | 41.742 |
| STS | MTEB AFQMC (default) | spearman | 43.473 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | main_score | 50.118 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | map_at_1 | 24.253 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | map_at_10 | 40.725 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | map_at_100 | 41.700 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | map_at_1000 | 41.707 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | map_at_20 | 41.468 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | map_at_3 | 35.467 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | map_at_5 | 38.291 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | mrr_at_1 | 24.751 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | mrr_at_10 | 40.911 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | mrr_at_100 | 41.885 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | mrr_at_1000 | 41.893 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | mrr_at_20 | 41.654 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | mrr_at_3 | 35.657 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna-PL (default) | mrr_at_5 | 38.466 |