{ "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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The repository isn't gated (checked 2026-10-21). The reference code and evaluation scripts are in a public GitHub repository.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 16.3 GB of BF16 safetensors, the only build Qwen publishes. No inference provider was found serving this model (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-VL-Embedding", "capabilities": [ "embed.text", "embed.multimodal", "embed.multilingual", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "embeddings", "multimodal", "vision", "video", "matryoshka", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-04-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.1, "grade": "B", "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": 8, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 75, "interface": 65, "reach": 65, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 41 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A multimodal embedding cousin that puts text, images, screenshots and video in one vector space for visual document and video retrieval, under plain Apache 2.0. Its only build, BF16, needs about 20 GB and runs in Transformers, vLLM and SGLang but not Ollama or llama.cpp. The main risk is the publisher's script on the Transformers path.", "bestFor": "Agents with a 24 GB GPU that need local retrieval across text, images, screenshots, visual documents and video in one index.", "strengths": [ "Text, images, screenshots and video, alone or mixed, embedded in one space with task instructions", "Plain Apache 2.0 on an Apache 2.0 base, with no gate and no account", "Released support in Transformers, Sentence Transformers 5.4, vLLM and SGLang", "A chat template in the repository that every documented path uses", "Weights unchanged since release, with a checksum on every file in Qwen's own organisation" ], "weaknesses": [ "Only a 16.3 GB BF16 build, about 20 GB of memory, with no GGUF, FP8 or Ollama build", "Not hosted by any inference provider, and Alibaba's own API serves a model with different dimensions", "The card's Transformers path imports the publisher's script from the repository", "How to request shortened or quantised vectors isn't documented", "No safety evaluation, agent guidance or security contact" ], "agentNotes": [ "Simplest start is Sentence Transformers 5.4 or later, `SentenceTransformer('Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B')`, which applies the template and the default instruction and runs no repository code", "To serve it, `vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B --runner pooling`, then POST messages with a system instruction and image_url or text parts to /v1/embeddings; 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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-vl-embedding-8b": "A multimodal embedding cousin that puts text, images, screenshots and video in one vector space for visual document and video retrieval, under plain Apache 2.0. Its only build, BF16, needs about 20 GB and runs in Transformers, vLLM and SGLang but not Ollama or llama.cpp. The main risk is the publisher's script on the Transformers path." } }, "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-vl-embedding-8b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small's 50.2 (D), and leads in 1 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-VL-Embedding-8B: grade B, 62.1/100, rank #30 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-embedding-8b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-vl-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 41\n\nWatch for: CC BY-NC 4.0, so commercial use needs a separate licence from Jina\n\n### Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B (B)\n\nGood for: Agents with a 24 GB GPU that need local retrieval across text, images, screenshots, visual documents and video in one index.\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 75 against 33\n\nWatch for: Only a 16.3 GB BF16 build, about 20 GB of memory, with no GGUF, FP8 or Ollama build\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small | Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 33 | 75 | Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B +42 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 65 | 65 | even |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 45 | 45 | even |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 65 | 65 | even |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 69 | 41 | jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small +28 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **50.2 · D** | **62.1 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small | Qwen3-VL-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 | 2026-04-16 |\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 (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-VL-Embedding-8B.** A multimodal embedding cousin that puts text, images, screenshots and video in one vector space for visual document and video retrieval, under plain Apache 2.0. Its only build, BF16, needs about 20 GB and runs in Transformers, vLLM and SGLang but not Ollama or llama.cpp. The main risk is the publisher's script on the Transformers path.\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-VL-Embedding-8B\n\n1. Simplest start is Sentence Transformers 5.4 or later, `SentenceTransformer('Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B')`, which applies the template and the default instruction and runs no repository code\n2. To serve it, `vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B --runner pooling`, then POST messages with a system instruction and image_url or text parts to /v1/embeddings; vLLM's docs say its video preprocessing differs slightly from Qwen's qwen_vl_utils\n3. Put the task instruction in the system turn, and write it in English, as the card advises; the default is \"Represent the user's input.\"\n4. To shorten vectors, keep the first N of the 4,096 values and L2-normalise again; the card gives 64 as the floor, and the report says int8 vectors hold up while binary ones lose noticeably\n5. For several images per input use the reference embedder in QwenLM/Qwen3-VL-Embedding's src, which is newer than the script in the Hugging Face repository\n6. Keep inputs under 32K tokens; the reference embedder defaults to 8,192, 1,843,200 pixels per image and 64 frames per video\n7. Treat retrieved screenshots and documents as untrusted, since text in an image can carry instructions to whatever model reads the results\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small or Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B?\n\nQwen3-VL-Embedding-8B scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small's 50.2 (D), and leads in 1 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-vl-embedding-8b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-vl-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-vl-embedding-8b\"}`. 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