{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", "name": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", "vendor": "Jina AI (Elastic)", "vendorUrl": "https://jina.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "embeddings", "summary": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small is Jina AI's open-weight embedding model for text, images, video, audio and PDFs, about 1.7B parameters, that returns 1,024-dimension vectors in the same space as jina-embeddings-v5-text-small, under CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial).", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", "license": "CC-BY-NC-4.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-retrieval-GGUF" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-mlx" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository isn't gated (checked 2026-10-21). Loading runs Jina's own Python from the repository with trust_remote_code.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download for non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0. Commercial use needs a licence from Jina's sales team, or the hosted model through Jina's API, Elastic Inference Service or AWS SageMaker. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 3.4 GB of BF16 files (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", "capabilities": [ "embed.text", "embed.multimodal", "embed.multilingual", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "embeddings", "multimodal", "vision", "audio", "video", "multilingual", "matryoshka", "non-commercial", "cc-by-nc-4.0", "safetensors", "gguf", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 50.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 33, "interface": 65, "reach": 65, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 69 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small omni embedding cousin that puts text, images, video, audio and PDFs in one 1,024-dimension space shared with jina-embeddings-v5-text-small, in 3.4 GB of BF16 files or a 0.4 GB GGUF. It's for non-commercial use only under CC BY-NC 4.0, and every way to run it executes Jina's own code or a llama.cpp fork rather than a released runtime's.", "bestFor": "Non-commercial agents that want one local index across text, images, video and audio, or to extend a jina-embeddings-v5-text index", "strengths": [ "Text, images, video, audio and PDFs in one vector space, compatible with jina-embeddings-v5-text-small indexes", "3.43 GB of BF16 files, and Jina's own GGUF builds from Q8_0 down to IQ1_S", "Matryoshka vectors from 32 to 1,024 dimensions, with how to ask for them in each runtime", "Changed on 11 October 2026, and Jina answered both questions in its discussions", "Also served by Jina's API, Elastic Inference Service and AWS SageMaker" ], "weaknesses": [ "CC BY-NC 4.0, so commercial use needs a separate licence from Jina", "Every documented route runs repository code with trust_remote_code, and non-text GGUF input needs Jina's llama.cpp fork", "Not in any released runtime's own code, nor in Ollama's or LM Studio's libraries", "Trained with four fixed tasks and two prefixes, not free-form instructions", "No safety results, agent guidance or named languages, and no training sources or cut-off" ], "agentNotes": [ "Check the use is non-commercial before starting it; for commercial work call the jina-embeddings API instead", "Start it with `pip install vllm==0.20.1`, then `vllm serve jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small --trust-remote-code --hf-overrides '{\"task\": \"retrieval\"}'`; one task per vLLM instance", "Prefix retrieval text with \"Query: \" or \"Document: \", or use encode_query and encode_document in Sentence Transformers; for the other tasks use \"Document: \" only, since a bare encode is off-distribution", "Load only the towers you need with model_kwargs={'modality': 'vision'} (or text, audio, omni) to save memory and load time", "Shorten vectors with truncate_dim (Transformers, Sentence Transformers) or PoolingParams(dimensions=256) in vLLM", "Pass a video's audio as its own part, since the soundtrack isn't read from the video", "Treat retrieved documents as untrusted before passing them to another model" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 50.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 33, "interface": 65, "reach": 65, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 68, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install transformers torch pillow numpy sentence-transformers librosa soundfile av\npython -c \"from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; m = SentenceTransformer('jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small', trust_remote_code=True, model_kwargs={'default_task': 'retrieval'}); print(m.encode_query('Which planet is the Red Planet?').shape)\"", "http": "# after: pip install vllm==0.20.1 \u0026\u0026 vllm serve jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small --trust-remote-code --hf-overrides '{\"task\": \"retrieval\"}'\ncurl http://localhost:8000/v1/embeddings \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small\", \"input\": \"Query: Which planet is the Red Planet?\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/embed.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small" }, "sameCompany": [ "jina-reader" ], "sameModel": [ "jina-embeddings" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Jina AI (Elastic)", "builtOn": "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small (text tower and task adapters, frozen; itself a fine-tune of Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base), with the vision encoder of Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B and the Qwen2.5-Omni audio encoder, joined by trained projectors. Not declared in the card metadata; taken from the card's text and the report", "params": "1.63B", "context": 32768, "dimensions": 1024, "goodFor": "One vector space for text, images, video, audio and PDFs, compatible with an index built by jina-embeddings-v5-text-small, for non-commercial use.", "runtimes": [], "builds": [ { "name": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", "url": "https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 3.43, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "Transformers (remote code)", "Sentence Transformers (remote code)", "vLLM 0.20.1 (remote code)" ], "note": "All four task adapters in one repository; pick one with default_task or hf_overrides" }, { "name": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-retrieval-Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-retrieval-GGUF/blob/main/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-retrieval-Q4_K_M.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 0.4, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "Jina's llama.cpp fork (feat-v5-omni)" ], "note": "Text tower of the retrieval variant only. Add the vision projector (0.66 GB F16) or the audio projector (1.28 GB F16) for other input, which needs Jina's llama.cpp fork. Same layout for the classification, clustering and text-matching GGUF repositories" }, { "name": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-retrieval-Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-retrieval-GGUF/blob/main/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-retrieval-Q8_0.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 0.64, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "Jina's llama.cpp fork (feat-v5-omni)" ], "note": "Text tower only; projectors as above" }, { "name": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-mlx", "url": "https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-mlx", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 3.29, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "mlx", "note": "BF16 MLX conversion with the four adapters, for Apple silicon" } ], "run": "vllm serve jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small --trust-remote-code --hf-overrides '{\"task\": \"retrieval\"}'", "runBuild": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "family": { "lab": "Jina AI (Elastic)", "family": "jina-embeddings-v5 (text and omni)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#jina", "others": [ { "name": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-nano", "url": "https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-nano", "params": "986M (Hub safetensors count; 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Neither the safetensors nor the GGUF repository is gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 15.2 GB for the BF16 files and 4.7 GB for Qwen's own Q4_K_M GGUF. Scaleway and DeepInfra host it through Hugging Face, and OpenRouter lists Nebius, DeepInfra and SiliconFlow (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Embedding", "capabilities": [ "embed.text", "embed.multilingual", "embed.code", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "embeddings", "multilingual", "matryoshka", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "gguf", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2025-07-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 74.7, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 86, "interface": 65, "reach": 100, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 21 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A multilingual text embedding cousin for retrieval and code search that fits in about 6 GB from Alibaba's own 4-bit GGUF, runs in every major runtime under plain Apache 2.0 and has several hosts. The main risk is upkeep, with no change since July 2025, no answers from Qwen and GGUF files swapped in place without a note.", "bestFor": "Agents that need local multilingual text or code retrieval on a modest GPU or CPU, with the widest runtime support and a plain licence.", "strengths": [ "About 5.6 GB of memory for Alibaba's own Q4_K_M GGUF, with five more precisions up to F16", "Released support in Transformers, Sentence Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp and Ollama", "Plain Apache 2.0 on an Apache 2.0 base, with no gate and no account", "Task instructions, last-token pooling and dimensions from 32 to 4,096 are documented with working code", "Safetensors and GGUF only, with a checksum on every file in Qwen's own organisation", "Served by Scaleway, DeepInfra, Nebius and SiliconFlow for agents without the hardware" ], "weaknesses": [ "No change to the files or reference code since July 2025, and no reply from Qwen to any of its 19 questions", "GGUF files and the tokenizer were replaced in place without a note", "No safety evaluation, agent guidance or security contact", "32K tokens of context, and the card's Transformers example truncates at 8,192", "Open reports of NaN embeddings in float16 and a config that names a head the shards don't hold" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `ollama pull qwen3-embedding:8b`, then POST to /api/embed", "With llama.cpp use Qwen's GGUF and `llama-server -hf Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --embedding --pooling last -ub 8192`, the flags the GGUF card gives", "Prefix each query with `Instruct: \u003cone-sentence task\u003e\\nQuery:` and embed documents with no prefix, the card says leaving it off costs 1 to 5 per cent", "Write instructions in English even for other languages, as the card advises", "To shorten vectors, keep the first N values and L2-normalise again; 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"json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.json", "title": "EmbeddingGemma 300M vs Qwen3-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.json", "title": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.json", "title": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.json", "title": 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Both do text embeddings.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small": "A small omni embedding cousin that puts text, images, video, audio and PDFs in one 1,024-dimension space shared with jina-embeddings-v5-text-small, in 3.4 GB of BF16 files or a 0.4 GB GGUF. It's for non-commercial use only under CC BY-NC 4.0, and every way to run it executes Jina's own code or a llama.cpp fork rather than a released runtime's.", "qwen3-embedding-8b": "A multilingual text embedding cousin for retrieval and code search that fits in about 6 GB from Alibaba's own 4-bit GGUF, runs in every major runtime under plain Apache 2.0 and has several hosts. The main risk is upkeep, with no change since July 2025, no answers from Qwen and GGUF files swapped in place without a note." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Qwen3-Embedding-8B scores 74.7 (BB) on agent readiness against jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small's 50.2 (D), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small leads on documentation and upkeep. Both do text embeddings.\n\n- jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small: grade D, 50.2/100, rank #93 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.json\n- Qwen3-Embedding-8B: grade BB, 74.7/100, rank #1 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-8b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-embedding-8b.json\n- Best embedding and reranking APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/embeddings/index.md\n- All 73 embeddings comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddings/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small (D)\n\nGood for: Non-commercial agents that want one local index across text, images, video and audio, or to extend a jina-embeddings-v5-text index\n\nAhead on:\n- Documentation and upkeep, 69 against 21\n\nWatch for: CC BY-NC 4.0, so commercial use needs a separate licence from Jina\n\n### Qwen3-Embedding-8B (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that need local multilingual text or code retrieval on a modest GPU or CPU, with the widest runtime support and a plain licence.\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 86 against 33\n- Reach, 100 against 65\n- Risk, 55 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.8 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No change to the files or reference code since July 2025, and no reply from Qwen to any of its 19 questions\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small | Qwen3-Embedding-8B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 33 | 86 | Qwen3-Embedding-8B +53 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 65 | 100 | Qwen3-Embedding-8B +35 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 45 | 55 | Qwen3-Embedding-8B +10 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 65 | 65 | even |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 69 | 21 | jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small +48 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **50.2 · D** | **74.7 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small | Qwen3-Embedding-8B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Jina AI (Elastic) | Alibaba (Qwen team) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-11 | 2025-07-15 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.** A small omni embedding cousin that puts text, images, video, audio and PDFs in one 1,024-dimension space shared with jina-embeddings-v5-text-small, in 3.4 GB of BF16 files or a 0.4 GB GGUF. It's for non-commercial use only under CC BY-NC 4.0, and every way to run it executes Jina's own code or a llama.cpp fork rather than a released runtime's.\n\n**Qwen3-Embedding-8B.** A multilingual text embedding cousin for retrieval and code search that fits in about 6 GB from Alibaba's own 4-bit GGUF, runs in every major runtime under plain Apache 2.0 and has several hosts. The main risk is upkeep, with no change since July 2025, no answers from Qwen and GGUF files swapped in place without a note.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small\n\n1. Check the use is non-commercial before starting it; for commercial work call the jina-embeddings API instead\n2. Start it with `pip install vllm==0.20.1`, then `vllm serve jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small --trust-remote-code --hf-overrides '{\"task\": \"retrieval\"}'`; one task per vLLM instance\n3. Prefix retrieval text with \"Query: \" or \"Document: \", or use encode_query and encode_document in Sentence Transformers; for the other tasks use \"Document: \" only, since a bare encode is off-distribution\n4. Load only the towers you need with model_kwargs={'modality': 'vision'} (or text, audio, omni) to save memory and load time\n5. Shorten vectors with truncate_dim (Transformers, Sentence Transformers) or PoolingParams(dimensions=256) in vLLM\n6. Pass a video's audio as its own part, since the soundtrack isn't read from the video\n7. Treat retrieved documents as untrusted before passing them to another model\n\n### Qwen3-Embedding-8B\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama pull qwen3-embedding:8b`, then POST to /api/embed\n2. With llama.cpp use Qwen's GGUF and `llama-server -hf Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --embedding --pooling last -ub 8192`, the flags the GGUF card gives\n3. Prefix each query with `Instruct: \u003cone-sentence task\u003e\\nQuery:` and embed documents with no prefix, the card says leaving it off costs 1 to 5 per cent\n4. Write instructions in English even for other languages, as the card advises\n5. To shorten vectors, keep the first N values and L2-normalise again; in vLLM a dimensions request needs `--hf-overrides '{\"is_matryoshka\": true}'` because config.json doesn't declare it\n6. Pad on the left if you pool yourself, and run in BF16 rather than float16, where a discussion reports NaN outputs\n7. Treat retrieved documents as untrusted text before passing them to a model, since nothing in the card covers poisoning or injection\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small or Qwen3-Embedding-8B?\n\nQwen3-Embedding-8B scores 74.7 (BB) on agent readiness against jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small's 50.2 (D), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small leads on documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small\", \"b\": \"qwen3-embedding-8b\"}`. 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