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jina-embedding-b-en

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jina-embedding-b-en is an open-weight embedding model from jinaai. jina-embedding-b-en-v1 (BF16) weighs 439 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • jina-embedding-b-en-v1 is a sentence-similarity model developed by jinaai for tasks such as information retrieval, semantic textual similarity, and text reranking.
  • The model contains 110 million parameters, supports a context length of 512 tokens, and is designed for English text.
  • It is distributed under the apache-2.0 license.

Summary of the jinaai/jina-embedding-b-en-v1 model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byjinaai
Released2023-07-07
VRAM439 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for jina-embedding-b-en-v1 (BF16)

439 MBweights, file size
1.1 GBruntime overhead
CardRunsMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What jinaai says about jina-embedding-b-en

Read the model card

Intented Usage & Model Info

jina-embedding-b-en-v1 is a language model that has been trained using Jina AI's Linnaeus-Clean dataset. This dataset consists of 380 million pairs of sentences, which include both query-document pairs. These pairs were obtained from various domains and were carefully selected through a thorough cleaning process. The Linnaeus-Full dataset, from which the Linnaeus-Clean dataset is derived, originally contained 1.6 billion sentence pairs.

The model has a range of use cases, including information retrieval, semantic textual similarity, text reranking, and more.

With a standard size of 110 million parameters, the model enables fast inference while delivering better performance than our small model. It is recommended to use a single GPU for inference. Additionally, we provide the following options:

Data & Parameters

Please checkout our technical blog.

Metrics

We compared the model against all-minilm-l6-v2/all-mpnet-base-v2 from sbert and text-embeddings-ada-002 from OpenAI:

Nameparamdimension
all-minilm-l6-v223m384
all-mpnet-base-v2110m768
ada-embedding-002Unknown/OpenAI API1536
jina-embedding-t-en-v114m312
jina-embedding-s-en-v135m512
jina-embedding-b-en-v1110m768
jina-embedding-l-en-v1330m1024
NameSTS12STS13STS14STS15STS16STS17TRECOVIDQuoraSciFact
all-minilm-l6-v20.7240.8060.7560.8540.790.8760.4730.8760.645
all-mpnet-base-v20.7260.8350.780.8570.80.9060.5130.8750.656
ada-embedding-0020.6980.8330.7610.8610.860.9030.6850.8760.726
jina-embedding-t-en-v10.7170.7730.7310.8290.7770.8600.4820.8400.522
jina-embedding-s-en-v10.7430.7860.7380.8370.800.8750.5230.8570.524
jina-embedding-b-en-v10.7510.8090.7610.8560.8120.8900.6060.8760.594
jina-embedding-l-en-v10.7450.8320.7810.8690.8370.9020.5730.8810.598

Usage

Usage with Jina AI Finetuner:

!pip install finetuner
import finetuner

model = finetuner.build_model('jinaai/jina-embedding-b-en-v1')
embeddings = finetuner.encode(
    model=model,
    data=['how is the weather today', 'What is the current weather like today?']
)
print(finetuner.cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]))

Use with sentence-transformers:

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
from sentence_transformers.util import cos_sim

sentences = ['how is the weather today', 'What is the current weather like today?']

model = SentenceTransformer('jinaai/jina-embedding-b-en-v1')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(cos_sim(embeddings[0], embeddings[1]))

Fine-tuning

Please consider Finetuner.

Plans

  1. The development of jina-embedding-s-en-v2 is currently underway with two main objectives: improving performance and increasing the maximum sequence length.
  2. We are currently working on a bilingual embedding model that combines English and X language. The upcoming model will be called jina-embedding-s/b/l-de-v1.

Contact

Citation

If you find Jina Embeddings useful in your research, please cite the following paper:

@misc{günther2023jina,
      title={Jina Embeddings: A Novel Set of High-Performance Sentence Embedding Models},
      author={Michael Günther and Louis Milliken and Jonathan Geuter and Georgios Mastrapas and Bo Wang and Han Xiao},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2307.11224},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)accuracy66.731
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)ap28.306
ClassificationMTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en)f160.024
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationaccuracy67.607
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationap63.590
ClassificationMTEB AmazonPolarityClassificationf165.643
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)accuracy31.178
ClassificationMTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en)f129.685
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_124.964
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_1040.218
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_10041.263
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_100041.277
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_335.183
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamap_at_538.045
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_125.107
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_1040.273
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_10041.318
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_100041.333
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_335.242
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnamrr_at_538.101
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_124.964
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_1049.006
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_10053.446
RetrievalMTEB ArguAnandcg_at_100053.813
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