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jina-embeddings-v5-text-small

Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights

The catch: Non-commercial licence: any commercial use needs a deal with Jina AI.

AccessOpen weights
Free limitsFree to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 677M multilingual text embedding model (Matryoshka sizes 32 to 1024) with 32,768-token input; released 18 Feb 2026. Non-commercial licence.
Modalityembeddings
Credit cardNot required
Commercial useNot allowed
Trains on your data–
Licence or termsCC-BY-NC-4.0
Context window32,768 tokens
Model idjinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small
Base URL–
Last checked8 Oct 2026

How to use jina-embeddings-v5-text-small

Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: CC-BY-NC-4.0.

Quickstart 
pip install -U sentence-transformers  # then SentenceTransformer("jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small", trust_remote_code=True), as in the model card
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I want to run the open-weight model "jina-embeddings-v5-text-small" (jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small) for my project.
Please:
1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint).
2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request.
3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use.
4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
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Before you ship on it

  • Non-commercial licence: any commercial use needs a deal with Jina AI.
  • CC BY-NC 4.0: the card says it is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 and asks commercial users to contact Jina AI ([email protected]).
  • Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.

Questions

Is jina-embeddings-v5-text-small free?

Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · non-commercial licence. No credit card is needed.

Can I use jina-embeddings-v5-text-small commercially?

No: the free access is for testing or non-commercial use. A paid plan is needed for production.

How do I start with jina-embeddings-v5-text-small?

Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: CC-BY-NC-4.0.

Source: huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small, checked 8 Oct 2026.