Average score vs. parameter count across image (MIEB-Lite), video (MMEB-V), and audio (MAEB) benchmarks — jina-v5-omni-nano and jina-v5-omni-small define the open-weight frontier (Table 1 in the ArXiv report).

jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small is a multimodal embedding model that accepts text, images, video, and audio and produces embeddings in a shared vector space aligned with the text-only jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small — so you can index with text and query with any modality, no reindexing. For a more compact alternative, see jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-nano.
This is the base repository — it holds all task adapters (retrieval, classification, clustering, text-matching). For a single task, pre-merged task-specific variants are also available:
jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-retrieval — query–document semantic search and RAG (raw-transformers users prepend Query: / Document: to text; sentence-transformers users call encode_query() / encode_document()).jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-classification — assigning labels via embedding similarity — zero-shot and few-shot classification across modalities.jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-clustering — grouping semantically similar items — topic discovery, deduplication, exploratory analysis.jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-text-matching — symmetric pairwise similarity scoring — STS, paraphrase and near-duplicate detection.| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Parameters | ~1.74B |
| Embedding Dimension | 1024 |
| Supported Tasks | retrieval, classification, clustering, text-matching |
| Max Sequence Length | 32768 |
| Pooling Strategy | Last-token |
| Supported Inputs | text, image, video, audio |
| Supported File Types | images: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .webp, .bmp, .tif, .tiff, .avif, .heic, .svg; video: .mp4, .avi, .mov, .mkv, .webm, .flv, .wmv; audio: .wav, .mp3, .flac, .ogg, .m4a, .opus; documents: .pdf |
| Matryoshka Dimensions | 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 768, 1024 |
The fastest way to use v5-omni in production. Elastic Inference Service (EIS) provides managed embedding inference with built-in scaling, so you can generate embeddings directly within your Elastic deployment.
# Retrieve the configuration of the preconfigured omni-small inference endpoint
GET /_inference/embedding/.jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small
# Generate an embedding for a single piece of text using the predefined endpoint
POST _inference/embedding/.jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small
{
"input": [
"This is a test"
]
}
# Fuse a text description and an image into a single embedding via a multimodal content block
POST _inference/embedding/.jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small
{
"input": [
{
"content": [
{ "type": "text", "value": "A small blue square" },
{ "type": "image", "format": "base64", "value": "<BASE64_IMAGE_DATA>" }
]
}
]
}
# Create a custom endpoint that truncates omni-small embeddings to 32 dimensions
PUT _inference/embedding/jina-omni-small-32d
{
"service": "elastic",
"service_settings": {
"model_id": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small",
"dimensions": 32
}
}See the Elastic Inference Service documentation for setup details.
# core
pip install transformers torch pillow numpy
# Optional — install only the extras for the modalities you actually use:
pip install librosa soundfile # audio decoding
pip install av imageio # video decoding (pure-Python, no codec daemon)
pip install pdf2image pypdfium2 # PDF rendering
pip install cairosvg pillow # SVG rendering
pip install "vllm==0.20.1" # high-throughput serving (validated)
pip install sentence-transformers # one-call multimodal APIFor minimum versions see the Requirements section below (transformers >= 4.57, torch >= 2.5; vLLM path validated with vllm == 0.20.1).
from PIL import Image
import librosa, torch
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoProcessor, WhisperFeatureExtractor
repo = "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small"
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(repo, trust_remote_code=True, default_task="retrieval").eval()
proc = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(repo, trust_remote_code=True)
# model.embed(**inputs) returns L2-normalized last-token embeddings.
t_vec = model.embed(**proc(text="Query: Which planet is known as the Red Planet?", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device))
i_vec = model.embed(**proc(images=Image.open("photo.jpg"), text="<|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|>", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device))
v_vec = model.embed(**proc(videos="clip.mp4", text="<|vision_start|><|video_pad|><|vision_end|>", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device))
# Audio has no string placeholder — build token ids from config.
audio, _ = librosa.load("speech.wav", sr=16000)
feat = WhisperFeatureExtractor(feature_size=128)(audio, sampling_rate=16000, return_tensors="pt")["input_features"]
cfg = model.config
n = feat.shape[-1] // 4
ids = torch.tensor([[cfg.audio_start_token_id, *[cfg.audio_token_id]*n, cfg.audio_end_token_id]])
a_vec = model.embed(
input_ids=ids.to(model.device),
attention_mask=torch.ones_like(ids).to(model.device),
input_features=feat.to(model.device, dtype=next(model.parameters()).dtype),
)For retrieval, use encode_query() for query-side embeddings and encode_document() for document-side embeddings. A bare encode(text) call does not know which retrieval side you intended. This applies to every modality, not just text: to encode an image, video, or audio clip as a query or document, either prepend the same Query: / Document: prefix to the text alongside the media placeholder on the raw path (e.g. text="Query: <|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|>"), or pass the media straight to encode_query(...) / encode_document(...) via sentence-transformers.
For non-retrieval tasks (classification / clustering / text-matching), load with default_task="classification" (or the matching task) and prepend "Document: " to text inputs on the raw model.embed(...) path — e.g. proc(text="Document: A cute cat sitting on a mat.", return_tensors="pt"). These tasks have no query/document distinction; the Document: prefix is the only one used.
No dtype, device, min_pixels, or custom pooling code needed — sensible defaults live in the model config (bf16 weights, 256–1280 vision tokens).
transformers>=4.57 (recommend >=5.1 for the small variants)torch>=2.5Optional:
sentence-transformers — one-call API for all 4 modalitieslibrosa — audio decodingav — video decoding (pip install av)vllm==0.20.1 — high-throughput serving; H100 deployments may also need DeepGEMM installed for vLLM FP8 kernelsBy default all components (vision + audio towers + text encoder) are loaded. To save memory, pick a subset — the unused towers are skipped at load time:
from transformers import AutoModel
AutoModel.from_pretrained("jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", trust_remote_code=True, modality="omni") # all (default)
AutoModel.from_pretrained("jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", trust_remote_code=True, modality="vision") # vision + text
AutoModel.from_pretrained("jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", trust_remote_code=True, modality="audio") # audio + text
AutoModel.from_pretrained("jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", trust_remote_code=True, modality="text") # text onlySame parameter works via sentence-transformers:
SentenceTransformer("jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", trust_remote_code=True, model_kwargs={"modality": "vision"})from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
# Base repo holds all 4 task adapters — pick one at load time.
model = SentenceTransformer(
"jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small",
trust_remote_code=True,
model_kwargs={"default_task": "retrieval"},
)
# URLs, local paths (with or without extension), PIL.Image, np.ndarray,
# torch.Tensor, bytes, and BytesIO are all accepted directly.
q_vec = model.encode_query("Which planet is known as the Red Planet?")
d_vec = model.encode_document("Mars is often referred to as the Red Planet due to its reddish appearance.")
# The Query:/Document: distinction applies to EVERY modality, not just text —
# pass the image / video / audio (URL, path, or object) straight to
# encode_query() / encode_document() to encode it as that retrieval side:
img_as_document = model.encode_document("https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/car.jpg")
img_as_query = model.encode_query("https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/car.jpg")
i_vec = model.encode("https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/car.jpg")
v_vec = model.encode("https://huggingface.co/datasets/raushan-testing-hf/videos-test/resolve/main/sample_demo_1.mp4") # needs `pip install av`
a_vec = model.encode("https://huggingface.co/datasets/Narsil/asr_dummy/resolve/main/mlk.flac") # needs `pip install librosa soundfile`
# Fused multimodal — a tuple becomes ONE embedding in a single forward pass:
emb = model.encode(("Winter boots, waterproof leather upper",
"https://.../boot.jpg",
"https://.../boot.mp4"))For non-retrieval tasks (classification / clustering / text-matching), reload
with the corresponding default_task and use encode_document(...) (or
encode(text, prompt_name="document")) — a bare encode(text) does not
apply the "Document: " prefix and is off-distribution.
No dtype, device, min_pixels, or custom pooling code needed — sensible defaults live in the model config (bf16 weights, 256–1280 vision tokens).
Path (.mp4 .avi .mov .mkv .webm .flv .wmv, or extensionless — content-sniffed), HTTP(S) URL, bytes/io.BytesIO, and in-memory np.ndarray / torch.Tensor of shape (T, H, W, 3|4) with dtype uint8. In-memory arrays are encoded to MP4 on the fly (needs pip install imageio imageio-ffmpeg).
import numpy as np
# (T, H, W, 3) uint8 — e.g. from decord, imageio, or an rgb frame buffer
frames = np.zeros((16, 224, 224, 3), dtype=np.uint8)
v_vec = model.encode(frames)The base repo holds all 4 task adapters. Pick one task per vLLM instance via hf_overrides:
from vllm import LLM
llm = LLM(
model="jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small",
runner="pooling",
trust_remote_code=True,
hf_overrides={"task": "retrieval"}, # or: classification / clustering / text-matching
)
# Retrieval: prepend "Query: " for queries, "Document: " for documents.
# Non-retrieval (classification / clustering / text-matching): prepend "Document: " to every text input.
outs = llm.embed([{"prompt": "Query: Which planet is known as the Red Planet?"}])Or via CLI:
vllm serve jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small \
--trust-remote-code \
--hf-overrides '{"task": "retrieval"}'Alternatively set JINA_V5_TASK=retrieval in the environment. Output is bit-exact
with the corresponding pre-merged -retrieval / -classification / -clustering /
-text-matching variant.
All three backends support truncating the full embedding to a shorter dimension with L2 re-normalization, so the result stays unit-norm:
# transformers
vec = model.embed(truncate_dim=256, **proc(text="hello", return_tensors="pt"))
# or
vec = model.encode(["hello"], task="retrieval", truncate_dim=256)
# sentence-transformers
vec = model.encode("hello", truncate_dim=256)
# vLLM — ask the pooler for a smaller embedding
from vllm import PoolingParams
outs = llm.embed(prompts, pooling_params=PoolingParams(dimensions=256))
# or truncate + renormalize the full-dim output yourself:
import numpy as np
full = np.asarray(outs[0].outputs.embedding)
vec = full[:256] / np.linalg.norm(full[:256])Pass a list to encode many inputs in one call.
# sentence-transformers — any modality
t_vecs = model.encode(["query 1", "query 2"])
i_vecs = model.encode([Image.open("a.jpg"), Image.open("b.jpg")])
v_vecs = model.encode(["clip1.mp4", "clip2.mp4"])
a_vecs = model.encode(["speech1.wav", "speech2.wav"])
# raw transformers — text (native padded batch)
inputs = proc(text=["query 1", "query 2"], padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
vecs = model.embed(**inputs) # (2, dim)
# vLLM — list of request dicts, any modality
outs = llm.embed([
{"prompt": "query 1"},
{"prompt": "query 2"},
])For sentence-transformers, images / video / audio are forwarded per-sample (one forward pass each). Text is truly batched. For large-scale multimodal throughput, prefer vLLM.
Embeddings produced by this model share a vector space with:
jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small — text-onlyjinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small (via matching adapter)You can index text with the v5-text-small model and query it with image,
video, or audio embeddings from jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small — no reindexing.
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