Jina models
This page collects all Jina models you can use as part of the Elastic Stack. Currently, the following models are available as built-in models:
Embedding models
Rerankers
Embedding models convert text into vector embeddings, which are fixed-length numerical representations that capture semantic meaning.
Texts with similar meaning are mapped to nearby points in vector space, so you can retrieve relevant documents with vector similarity search.
When you send text to an EIS inference endpoint that uses an embedding model, the model returns a vector of floating-point numbers (for example, 1024 values). Elasticsearch stores these vectors in dense_vector fields or through the semantic_text filed and uses vector similarity search to retrieve the most relevant documents for a given query. Unlike ELSER, which expands text into sparse token-weight vectors, these models produce compact dense vectors that are well suited for multilingual and cross-domain use cases.
The jina-embeddings-v5-text-small model is a compact, multilingual dense vector embedding model that you can use through Elastic Inference Service (EIS).
It is optimized for retrieval, text matching, clustering, and classification with task-specific adapters and includes support for Matryoshka Representation Learning, which enables you to truncate embeddings to fewer dimensions with minimal loss in quality.
As the model runs on EIS, Elastic's own infrastructure, no ML node scaling and configuration is required to use it.
The jina-embeddings-v5-text-small model has 677M parameters, supports a 32768 token input context window, and produces 1024-dimension embeddings by default.
For more information about the model family, refer to the Elastic blog post or the model collection on Hugging Face.
To use jina-embeddings-v5-text-small, you must have the appropriate subscription level or the trial period activated.
Create an inference endpoint that references the jina-embeddings-v5-text-small model in the model_id field.
PUT _inference/text_embedding/eis-jina-embeddings-v5-text-small
{
"service": "elastic",
"service_settings": {
"model_id": "jina-embeddings-v5-text-small"
}
}
The created inference endpoint uses the model for inference operations on Elastic Inference Service. You can reference the inference_id of the endpoint in text_embedding inference tasks or search queries.
For example, the following API request ingests the input text and produce embeddings.
POST _inference/text_embedding/eis-jina-embeddings-v5-text-small
{
"input": "The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel.",
"input_type": "ingest"
}
jina-embeddings-v5-text-smallworks best on small, medium or large sized fields that contain natural language. For connector or web crawler use cases, this aligns best with fields like title, description, summary, or abstract. Although the model supports a 32768 token context window, consider chunking very large fields to control latency and cost.- Larger documents take longer at ingestion time, and inference time per document also increases the more fields in a document that need to be processed.
- The more fields your pipeline has to perform inference on, the longer it takes per document to ingest.
The jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano model is a compact, multilingual dense vector embedding model that you can use through Elastic Inference Service (EIS).
It is optimized for retrieval, text matching, clustering, and classification with task-specific adapters and includes support for Matryoshka Representation Learning, which enables you to truncate embeddings to fewer dimensions with minimal loss in quality.
As the model runs on EIS, Elastic's own infrastructure, no ML node scaling and configuration is required to use it.
The jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano model has 239M parameters, supports an 8192 token input context window, and produces 768-dimension embeddings by default.
For more information about the model family, refer to the Elastic blog post or the model collection on Hugging Face.
To use jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano, you must have the appropriate subscription level or the trial period activated.
Create an inference endpoint that references the jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano model in the model_id field.
PUT _inference/text_embedding/eis-jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano
{
"service": "elastic",
"service_settings": {
"model_id": "jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano"
}
}
The created inference endpoint uses the model for inference operations on Elastic Inference Service. You can reference the inference_id of the endpoint in text_embedding inference tasks or search queries.
For example, the following API request ingests the input text and produce embeddings.
POST _inference/text_embedding/eis-jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano
{
"input": "The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel.",
"input_type": "ingest"
}
jina-embeddings-v5-text-nanoworks best on small, medium or large sized fields that contain natural language. For connector or web crawler use cases, this aligns best with fields like title, description, summary, or abstract. Although the model supports an 8192 token context window, consider chunking very large fields to control latency and cost.- Larger documents take longer at ingestion time, and inference time per document also increases the more fields in a document that need to be processed.
- The more fields your pipeline has to perform inference on, the longer it takes per document to ingest.
The jina-embeddings-v3 is a multilingual dense vector embedding model that you can use through Elastic Inference Service (EIS).
It provides long-context embeddings across a wide range of languages without requiring you to configure, download, or deploy any model artifacts yourself.
As the model runs on EIS, Elastic's own infrastructure, no ML node scaling and configuration is required to use it.
The jina-embeddings-v3 model supports input lengths of up to 8192 tokens and produces 1024-dimension embeddings by default. It uses task-specific adapters to optimize embeddings for different use cases (such as retrieval or classification), and includes support for Matryoshka Representation Learning, which allows you to truncate embeddings to fewer dimensions with minimal loss in quality.
For more information about the model, refer to the model card on Hugging Face.
To use jina-embeddings-v3, you must have the appropriate subscription level or the trial period activated.
Create an inference endpoint that references the jina-embeddings-v3 model in the model_id field.
PUT _inference/text_embedding/eis-jina-embeddings-v3
{
"service": "elastic",
"service_settings": {
"model_id": "jina-embeddings-v3"
}
}
The created inference endpoint uses the model for inference operations on Elastic Inference Service. You can reference the inference_id of the endpoint in text_embedding inference tasks or search queries.
For example, the following API request ingests the input text and produce embeddings.
POST _inference/text_embedding/eis-jina-embeddings-v3
{
"input": "The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel.",
"input_type": "ingest"
}
jina-embeddings-v3works best on small, medium or large sized fields that contain natural language. For connector or web crawler use cases, this aligns best with fields like title, description, summary, or abstract. Althoughjina-embeddings-v3has a context window of 8192 tokens, it's best to limit the input to 2048-4096 tokens for optimal performance. For larger fields that exceed this limit - for example,body_contenton web crawler documents - consider chunking the content into multiple values, where each chunk can be under 4096 tokens.- Larger documents take longer at ingestion time, and inference time per document also increases the more fields in a document that need to be processed.
- The more fields your pipeline has to perform inference on, the longer it takes per document to ingest.
Reranker models take a query and an already retrieved set of candidate documents, then reorders those candidates by predicted relevance. Rerankers improve precision for the top query results.
jina-reranker-v3 is a multilingual listwise reranking model that improves search relevance by reordering candidate results using cross-document context.
It is available out-of-the-box through Elastic Inference Service (EIS), so you can apply reranking without managing infrastructure or model resources.
The model reranks up to 64 documents together in a single inference call, which makes it a good fit for high-precision top-k reranking in hybrid search and RAG workflows.
For more information about the model, refer to the Elastic blog post or the model announcement.
To use jina-reranker-v3, you must have the appropriate subscription level or the trial period activated.
Create an inference endpoint that references the jina-reranker-v3 model in the model_id field.
PUT _inference/rerank/eis-jina-reranker-v3
{
"service": "elastic",
"service_settings": {
"model_id": "jina-reranker-v3"
}
}
The created inference endpoint uses the model for inference operations on Elastic Inference Service. You can reference the inference_id of the endpoint in rerank inference tasks.
For example, the following API request ingests the input strings and ranks them by relevance:
POST _inference/rerank/eis-jina-reranker-v3
{
"input": ["The Swiss Alps", "a steep hill", "a pebble", "a glacier"],
"query": "mountain range"
}
jina-reranker-v3 is designed for top-k reranking and processes up to 64 candidates at a time.
For larger candidate sets, rerank the most relevant results returned by your first-stage retrieval and keep your candidate list within the model's listwise limit.
jina-reranker-v2 is a multilingual cross-encoder model that helps you to improve search relevance across over 100 languages and various data types. The model significantly improves information retrieval in multilingual environments. jina-reranker-v2 is available out-of-the-box and supports Elastic deployments using the Elasticsearch Inference API. You can use the model to improve existing search applications like hybrid semantic search, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and more. You can use the model through Elastic Inference Service (EIS), Elastic's own infrastructure, without the need of managing infrastructure and model resources.
For more information about the model, refer to the model card on Hugging Face.
To use jina-reranker-v2, you must have the appropriate subscription level or the trial period activated.
Create an inference endpoint that references the jina-reranker-v2 model in the model_id field.
PUT _inference/rerank/eis-jina-reranker-v2
{
"service": "elastic",
"service_settings": {
"model_id": "jina-reranker-v2"
}
}
The created inference endpoint uses the model for inference operations on Elastic Inference Service. You can reference the inference_id of the endpoint in rerank inference tasks.
For example, the following API request ingests the input strings and ranks them by relevance:
POST _inference/rerank/eis-jina-reranker-v2
{
"input": ["luke", "like", "leia", "chewy","r2d2", "star", "wars"],
"query": "star wars main character"
}
jina-reranker-v2 works best on small, medium or large sized fields that contain natural language.
This aligns best with fields like title, description, summary, or abstract.
The model uses a context window of 1024 tokens and automatically chunks larger content.
Larger documents take longer to process, and inference time also increases the more documents are present in the reranking request.
The following blog posts provide additional background and context: