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jina-embeddings-v2-small-en

jinaai Apache 2.0 out 3 years ago

32.7M parameters, text in, embeddings out.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #58 in Embeddings · score 87.1 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 1.1M · #100 of 619 tracked

Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file
Does it work?45.3on MTEB Reranking#24 of 33 measuredleaderboard2026-10-24
Do people use it?1.1Mdownloads, 30 days#100 of 619 we track · top 16%+4 likes, downloads −2% this week158 likesHugging Face

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 4 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

4 best of 4 tracked

The 1 pick above, plus these 3. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. Articlejina-embeddings-v2-small-en by Jina AI: Open-Weight Modelsavrn.com · undated
  2. ArticlePapers Explained 264: Jina Embeddings v2 | by Ritvik Rastogi | Mediumritvik19.medium.com · 2024-12-03
  3. ArticleThe guide to jina-embeddings-v2-small-en | Jina AIzilliz.com · 2024-08-25

Where it's used

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No API provider serves it, so its downloads are people running it themselves: 7 quantized builds.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware7quantized builds
  • Built on66 fine-tunes · 0 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps0Hugging Face Spaces

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 16 GB card at BF16

About 0.1 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBBF16: about 0.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF160.1 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBBF16: about 0.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF160.1 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

How it scores

Third-party measurements only; author-reported numbers stay in Reference, marked as such.

#24 of 33 on MTEB Reranking so far

45.3. Each tick is a model on this site with a measured MTEB Reranking row; author-reported numbers stay in Reference. MAP x100 (mean of 2 tasks). 2 tasks, split=test

Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B: 51.56 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsQwen/Qwen3-Embedding-4B: 50.76 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct: 48.74 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultssentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2: 48.41 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsBAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5: 48.26 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsBAAI/bge-multilingual-gemma2: 48.19 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsQwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B: 48.18 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsjinaai/jina-embeddings-v3: 47.94 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsthenlper/gte-large: 47.84 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2: 47.63 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsSnowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0: 47.47 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsgoogle/embeddinggemma-300m: 47.43 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultssentence-transformers/multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1: 46.99 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsBAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5: 46.94 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsAlibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base: 46.81 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsBAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5: 46.66 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsBAAI/bge-base-en: 46.49 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsjinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en: 46.39 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsgoogle/embeddinggemma-2: 46.03 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsnomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5: 46.01 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/e5-large-v2: 45.72 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsnomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1: 45.71 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultssentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2: 45.43 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsnomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe: 45.23 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultssentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2: 45.16 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/e5-base-v2: 45.13 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsSnowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-m: 44.85 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/multilingual-e5-large: 44.74 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/multilingual-e5-base: 44.28 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/e5-small-v2: 44.1 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/multilingual-e5-small: 43.19 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultssentence-transformers/LaBSE: 41.28 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/results010045.3 · #24 of 33
Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B: 51.56 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsQwen/Qwen3-Embedding-4B: 50.76 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct: 48.74 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultssentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2: 48.41 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsBAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5: 48.26 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsBAAI/bge-multilingual-gemma2: 48.19 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsQwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B: 48.18 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsjinaai/jina-embeddings-v3: 47.94 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsthenlper/gte-large: 47.84 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2: 47.63 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsSnowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0: 47.47 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsgoogle/embeddinggemma-300m: 47.43 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultssentence-transformers/multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1: 46.99 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsBAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5: 46.94 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsAlibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base: 46.81 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsBAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5: 46.66 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsBAAI/bge-base-en: 46.49 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsjinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en: 46.39 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsgoogle/embeddinggemma-2: 46.03 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsnomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5: 46.01 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/e5-large-v2: 45.72 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsnomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1: 45.71 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultssentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2: 45.43 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsnomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe: 45.23 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultssentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2: 45.16 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/e5-base-v2: 45.13 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsSnowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-m: 44.85 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/multilingual-e5-large: 44.74 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/multilingual-e5-base: 44.28 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/e5-small-v2: 44.1 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultsintfloat/multilingual-e5-small: 43.19 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/resultssentence-transformers/LaBSE: 41.28 · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/results010045.3 · #24 of 33

Source · leaderboard · 2026-10-24

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

3 dated articles and 0 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2023-09-27), amber triangles are 3 dated articles (each links to it).

OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctBuild RAG Applications Using Jina Embeddings v2 on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart · 2024-06-09The guide to jina-embeddings-v2-small-en | Jina AI · 2024-08-25Papers Explained 264: Jina Embeddings v2 | by Ritvik Rastogi | Medium · 2024-12-03Weights 2023-09-27 · 2023-09-27Weights 2023-09-27now
OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctBuild RAG Applications Using Jina Embeddings v2 on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart · 2024-06-09The guide to jina-embeddings-v2-small-en | Jina AI · 2024-08-25Papers Explained 264: Jina Embeddings v2 | by Ritvik Rastogi | Medium · 2024-12-03Weights 2023-09-27 · 2023-09-27Weights 2023-09-27now

What people built on it

13 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

13 derivatives on the Hub, most of them quantized

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Benchmarks

3 rows

Benchmarks 3 rows

measured third-party leaderboard row (3)author-reported number from the model card or eval filesNo confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
measured MTEB · Embed text for search26.47 nDCG@10 x100 (mean of 10 tasks)10 tasks, split=testleaderboard2026-10-24
measured MTEB · Embed text for search51.02 mean over 40/41 tasks present40/41 tasksleaderboard2026-10-24
measured MTEB Reranking · Rerank search results45.3 MAP x100 (mean of 2 tasks)2 tasks, split=testleaderboard2026-10-24

Use-case evidence

2 use cases

What it is good at 2 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

14 fields

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Facts

Pipeline tagfeature-extraction
Librarysentence-transformers
ArchitecturesJinaBertForMaskedLM
Model typebert
Params by dtypeF16: 32,690,688
Size bandS
MoEno
PapersarXiv:2108.12409, arXiv:2310.19923
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for jina-embeddings-v2-small-en: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)0.1 GB · Edge (<4 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)0.0 GB · Edge (<4 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)0.0 GB · Edge (<4 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.

All variants

13 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2 13 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 7finetune: 6

Top variants (13 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
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Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
Xenova/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en quantized — — — — Xenova 1 1.2M
Qdrant/minicoil-v1 quantized — — — apache-2.0 Qdrant 28 417.7k
second-state/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 second-state 0 5.7k
djuna/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en-Q5_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 djuna 0 1.4k
govtech/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en-off-topic quantized — — — other govtech 3 726
MarcinZarkowski/stonky_sec_jinabert_small finetune — 32.7M S apache-2.0 MarcinZarkowski 0 436
napsternxg/nyt-ingredient-tagger-jina-embeddings-v2-small-en finetune — — — apache-2.0 napsternxg 0 382
borgcollectivegmbh/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en_linkedin_profile_model_run1__modified_config finetune — 32.7M S — borgcollectivegmbh 0 360
whitphx/test-transformersjs-jina-embeddings-v2-small-en quantized — — — — whitphx 0 239
XiaSheng/FreeChunk-jina finetune — 312M S apache-2.0 XiaSheng 0 122
ITOCJ/SciGenSetfit3 finetune — 32.7M S — ITOCJ 0 74
zhufucdev/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en quantized — — — apache-2.0 zhufucdev 0 67
gaianet/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en-GGUF finetune GGUF — — apache-2.0 gaianet 1 0

Repository changelog

1 change
changed in the last 7 daysNew on the watch list: 2026-10-23all changes

Articles and coverage

4 pieces

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Official1

aws.amazon.com2024-06-09about the jina embeddings v2 familyHN 1 pts · 0 comments1,732 words
Jina Embeddings v2 supports an 8,192-tokens context length for processing long documents like legal text or product documentation. The jina-embeddings-v2-base-de model has a size of 322 MB with a performance score of 60.1% for information retrieval tasks.generated, cited

Analysis3

savrn.com2,707 words
Jina AI released jina-embeddings-v2-small-en, an open-weight model for English text feature extraction under Apache License 2.0. The 33M parameter model uses a four-layer JinaBERT architecture with an 8,192-token context and fits on a single MI300X GPU for $1.85 an hour.written, reviewed, cited
  • The model is further trained on Jina AI's collection of more than 400 millions of sentence pairs and hard negatives.
  • Apache 2.0 requires users to keep the license and NOTICE files and state significant changes when redistributing.
  • The 8,192 token window allows a full contract or filing to be processed as one single piece of text.
zilliz.com2024-08-25613 words
Jina AI released jina-embeddings-v2-small-en, the smallest variant in the Jina Embeddings v2 family as of October 2024. The model is trained with 33 million parameters and generates 512-dimensional embeddings for English monolingual text. It supports a sequence length of up to 8192 tokens and is available under an Apache 2.0 license.written, reviewed, cited
  • The model supports multilingual queries in the sentence-transformer example despite being English-only.
  • jina-embeddings-v3 offers flexible embedding sizes with a default of 1024 dimensions.
  • The sentence-transformer integration requires setting normalize_embeddings=True during encoding.
ritvik19.medium.com2024-12-03about the jina embeddings v2 family

Papers

2 papers

Papers 2

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