jina-embeddings-v5

Overview

jina-embeddings-v5-text-small was released on February 18, 2026, achieving state-of-the-art multilingual performance with 677M parameters—the highest among embedding models under 1B parameters.

Features

• 71.7 average score on MTEB English v2
• 67.7 score on MMTEB (Multilingual)
• 677M parameters for efficient deployment
• API compatibility with OpenAI's text-embedding-3-large
• Drop-in replacement for OpenAI embeddings
• Open-source under Apache 2.0 license

Performance

• Highest multilingual performance under 1B parameters
• Excellent semantic understanding across languages
• Efficient inference on consumer hardware

API Compatibility

The API endpoint matches OpenAI's JSON schemas, allowing users to easily replace OpenAI models with Jina embeddings without code changes.

Pricing

Generous free tier with millions of tokens included, competitive paid tiers for production use