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Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small

Apr 2026

Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small

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$0.05per 1M tokens

74.2MIEB lite

Apr 2026released

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33K tokensMax input

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1Argus Colqwen3.5 9B v092.7 2Nemotron Colembed VL 8B v292.7 3Argus Colqwen3.5 4B v092.3 4VultronRetrieverCore Qwen3.5 4.5B92.2 5VultronRetrieverPrime Qwen3.5 8B92.1

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43ColSmol 256M79.7 44Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small79.3 45Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano79.2

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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes

CheaperJina Embeddings v5 Omni NanounstatedOpensame-60%$0.02Max input: 33K tokens → 8K tokens

BetterJina Embeddings v4unstatedOpen+14%same$0.05Memory (4-bit): 1 GB → 2.4 GB DOpenArgus Colqwen3.5 9B v0unstated+17%——Memory (4-bit): 1 GB → 5.3 GB VBetterVoyage Multimodal 3+6%+140%$0.12

BetterNemotron Colembed VL 8B v2Open+17%——Memory (4-bit): 1 GB → 5.2 GB

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Fits on✓ 8 GB (phone, laptop) · full quality✓ 16 GB · full quality✓ 24 GB GPU · full quality✓ 48 GB GPU · full quality✓ 80 GB GPU · full quality

LicenceCC BY-NC 4.0no commercial use

Benchmarks

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MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese54.8#35

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese60.2#34

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese66.5#37

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese63.3#39

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese70.7#46

MTEB Persian v2 · Pair Classification · Persian83.4#17

MTEB Persian v2 · Clustering · Persian70.7#2

MTEB Persian v2 · STS · Persian80#9

MTEB Persian v2 · Bitext Mining · Persian57.3#24

JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese51.9#28

JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese82.5#29

LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English66.4#24

LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English66.4#24

LongEmbed · Retrieval · English66.4#24

MAEB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (159 languages)50.4#5

MAEB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (159 languages)55.6#3

MAEB v1 · Audio Pair Classification · English65.4#7

MAEB v1 · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)6.1#13

MAEB v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (150 languages)49.8#7

MAEB v1 · Audio Zero-shot Classification · English62.2#6

MAEB v1 · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)52#7

MAEB v1 · Audio Multilabel Classification · English69.3#13

MAEB v1 · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content84.4#4

MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over tasks · multilingual (102 languages)50.2#4

MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over task types · multilingual (102 languages)58.4#3

MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Pair Classification · English65.4#7

MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content84.4#4

MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)6.1#13

MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)52#7

MAEB v1 audio-only · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (4 languages)83.9#16

MIEB English · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)65.3#2

MIEB English · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)65.3#2

MIEB English · Document Understanding · English79.3#44

MIEB English · Any-to-any Retrieval · English37.9#13

MIEB English · Vision Centric QA · English53.4#5

MIEB English · Zero-shot Classification · English63#13

MIEB English · Image Classification · English75.3#22

MIEB English · Image Clustering · English86#3

MIEB English · Visual semantic similarity (English) · multilingual (13 languages)81.7#2

MIEB English · Compositionality · English46.1#2

MIEB Img · Image Classification · English75.3#22

MIEB Img · Any-to-any Retrieval · English37.3#18

MIEB Img · Image Clustering · English86#3

MIEB Img · Visual semantic similarity (English) · English80.3#1

MIEB lite · Mean over tasks · multilingual (41 languages)61.1#6

MIEB lite · Mean over task types · multilingual (41 languages)61.1#6

MIEB lite · Any-to-any Retrieval · English27.6#26

MIEB lite · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages)53.7#9

MIEB lite · Document Understanding · English74.2#47

MIEB lite · Zero-shot Classification · English52.8#26

MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)65.1#9

MIEB lite · Vision Centric QA · English56.2#9

MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (English) · English83.4#4

MIEB lite · Image Classification · English74.1#14

MIEB lite · Compositionality · English40.5#5

MIEB lite · Image Clustering · English83.2#2

MIEB multilingual · Mean over tasks · multilingual (41 languages)65.1#2

MIEB multilingual · Mean over task types · multilingual (41 languages)65.1#2

MIEB multilingual · Any-to-any Retrieval · English37.9#13

MIEB multilingual · Image Classification · English75.3#22

MIEB multilingual · Document Understanding · English79.3#44

MIEB multilingual · Compositionality · English46.1#2

MIEB multilingual · Zero-shot Classification · English63#13

MIEB multilingual · Visual semantic similarity (English) · multilingual (13 languages)81.7#2

MIEB multilingual · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages)62.8#3

MIEB multilingual · Image Clustering · English86#3

MIEB multilingual · Vision Centric QA · English53.4#5

MIEB multilingual · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)65.1#9

MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German58.7#9

MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English1.3#29

MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)31.8#2

MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)81.7#2

MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)91.5#6

MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)48.2#20

MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)60.9#21

MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)90.9#11

MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French86.5#6

MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French70.5#9

MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French28.8#133

MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)70.5#24

MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)47.8#33

MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)87#21

MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi79.8#17

MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)48.1#23

MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering · Korean74.4#6

MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean87.5#5

MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean33.3#70

MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification · Korean70.3#4

MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch31#79

MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch42.4#22

MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch90.2#32

MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch81.2#13

MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish49.6#4

MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish86.9#11

MTEB Portuguese v1 · Classification · Portuguese69#7

MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese21.3#51

MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English42.5#36

MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese83.4#41

FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English1.3#29

FollowIR · Mean over task types · English1.3#29

FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English1.3#29

MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)68.2#8

MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)68.4#9

MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)82.5#3

MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish48.8#19

MTEB Spanish v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)56.7#6

MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish77.3#9

MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish64.6#2

MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish80.3#40

MTEB Thai v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)64.2#9

MTEB Thai v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)63.9#10

MTEB Thai v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)64.5#7

MTEB Thai v1 · Classification · Thai68.2#11

MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai79.2#21

MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai55.2#27

MTEB Thai v1 · Reranking · Thai52.2#23

MVEB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (16 languages)45.5#12

MVEB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (16 languages)47.9#8

MVEB v1 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages)52.4#10

MVEB v1 · Video Zero-shot Classification · English51.7#6

MVEB v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · English38.5#13

MVEB v1 · Video Centric QA · English46.6#10

MVEB v1 · Video Pair Classification · English79.9#2

MVEB v1 · Video Clustering · English18.2#12

MVEB text video v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (16 languages)48.4#16

MVEB text video v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (16 languages)44.4#13

MVEB text video v1 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages)41.6#20

MVEB text video v1 · Video Zero-shot Classification · English53.2#13

MVEB text video v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · English52.6#16

MVEB text video v1 · Video Pair Classification · English85.6#8

MVEB text video v1 · Video Clustering · English7.1#21

MVEB text video v1 · Video Centric QA · English26.3#11

MVEB video v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (16 languages)55.2#17

MVEB video v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (16 languages)59.7#11

MVEB video v1 · Video Pair Classification · English73.2#7

MVEB video v1 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages)46.2#18

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)68#22

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)52#6

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)86#2

ViDoRe v3 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)45.6#34

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian61.4#22

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian41.7#23

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian67.3#8

RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English66.1#37

RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)51.3#38

RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German63.6#36

RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)62.3#26

RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)56.4#32

MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)67#13

MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)58.9#12

MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)53.4#19

MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)78.8#8

MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)71.3#11

MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)64.9#20

MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)42#2

MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)69.7#38

MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English1.3#29

MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)65.7#16

MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)82.9#12

FAQ

How much does Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small cost?›

$0.05 per 1M tokens.

Is Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small free to use?›

There is no free API; it costs $0.05 per 1M tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small, and what is it best at?›

#47 of 89 in Multimodal.

Is Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small better than ColSmol 256M?›

On MIEB English · Document Understanding · English, Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small scores 79.3 vs 79.7 — about the same.

When was Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2026-04-01. It is the current version in its line.

Is Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (cc-by-nc-4.0 licence).

Can I run Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small locally?›

The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.

What is Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small?›

Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Jina AI, released Apr 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small?›

Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano (cheaper), Jina Embeddings v4 (better), Argus Colqwen3.5 9B v0 (open weights).