Model reference · open weights
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.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
Summary of the jinaai/jina-embedding-b-en-v1 model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | jinaai |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-07-07 |
| VRAM | 439 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Runs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
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:
jina-embedding-t-en-v1: 14 million parameters.jina-embedding-s-en-v1: 35 million parametersjina-embedding-b-en-v1: 110 million parameters (you are here).jina-embedding-l-en-v1: 330 million parameters.jina-embedding-1b-en-v1: 1.2 billion parameters, 10 times bert-base (soon).jina-embedding-6b-en-v1: 6 billion parameters, 30 times bert-base (soon).Please checkout our technical blog.
We compared the model against all-minilm-l6-v2/all-mpnet-base-v2 from sbert and text-embeddings-ada-002 from OpenAI:
| Name | param | dimension |
|---|---|---|
| all-minilm-l6-v2 | 23m | 384 |
| all-mpnet-base-v2 | 110m | 768 |
| ada-embedding-002 | Unknown/OpenAI API | 1536 |
| jina-embedding-t-en-v1 | 14m | 312 |
| jina-embedding-s-en-v1 | 35m | 512 |
| jina-embedding-b-en-v1 | 110m | 768 |
| jina-embedding-l-en-v1 | 330m | 1024 |
| Name | STS12 | STS13 | STS14 | STS15 | STS16 | STS17 | TRECOVID | Quora | SciFact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| all-minilm-l6-v2 | 0.724 | 0.806 | 0.756 | 0.854 | 0.79 | 0.876 | 0.473 | 0.876 | 0.645 |
| all-mpnet-base-v2 | 0.726 | 0.835 | 0.78 | 0.857 | 0.8 | 0.906 | 0.513 | 0.875 | 0.656 |
| ada-embedding-002 | 0.698 | 0.833 | 0.761 | 0.861 | 0.86 | 0.903 | 0.685 | 0.876 | 0.726 |
| jina-embedding-t-en-v1 | 0.717 | 0.773 | 0.731 | 0.829 | 0.777 | 0.860 | 0.482 | 0.840 | 0.522 |
| jina-embedding-s-en-v1 | 0.743 | 0.786 | 0.738 | 0.837 | 0.80 | 0.875 | 0.523 | 0.857 | 0.524 |
| jina-embedding-b-en-v1 | 0.751 | 0.809 | 0.761 | 0.856 | 0.812 | 0.890 | 0.606 | 0.876 | 0.594 |
| jina-embedding-l-en-v1 | 0.745 | 0.832 | 0.781 | 0.869 | 0.837 | 0.902 | 0.573 | 0.881 | 0.598 |
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]))
Please consider Finetuner.
jina-embedding-s-en-v2 is currently underway with two main objectives: improving performance and increasing the maximum sequence length.jina-embedding-s/b/l-de-v1.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
As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classification | MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | accuracy | 66.731 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | ap | 28.306 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | f1 | 60.024 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | accuracy | 67.607 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | ap | 63.590 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | f1 | 65.643 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) | accuracy | 31.178 |
| Classification | MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) | f1 | 29.685 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_1 | 24.964 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_10 | 40.218 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_100 | 41.263 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_1000 | 41.277 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_3 | 35.183 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | map_at_5 | 38.045 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_1 | 25.107 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_10 | 40.273 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_100 | 41.318 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_1000 | 41.333 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_3 | 35.242 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | mrr_at_5 | 38.101 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_1 | 24.964 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_10 | 49.006 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_100 | 53.446 |
| Retrieval | MTEB ArguAna | ndcg_at_1000 | 53.813 |