diff --git a/pydantic_ai_slim/pydantic_ai/embeddings/__init__.py b/pydantic_ai_slim/pydantic_ai/embeddings/__init__.py
index bf0e88f048..3a13c8a00b 100644
--- a/pydantic_ai_slim/pydantic_ai/embeddings/__init__.py
+++ b/pydantic_ai_slim/pydantic_ai/embeddings/__init__.py
@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ def infer_model(
         from .cohere import CohereEmbeddingModel
 
         return CohereEmbeddingModel(model_name, provider=provider)
+    elif model_kind == 'sentence-transformers':
+        from .sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformerEmbeddingModel
+
+        return SentenceTransformerEmbeddingModel(model_name)
     else:
         raise UserError(f'Unknown embeddings model: {model}')  # pragma: no cover
 
diff --git a/pydantic_ai_slim/pydantic_ai/embeddings/sentence_transformers.py b/pydantic_ai_slim/pydantic_ai/embeddings/sentence_transformers.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c4a3783d89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pydantic_ai_slim/pydantic_ai/embeddings/sentence_transformers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from collections.abc import Sequence
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from typing import Any, overload
+
+from pydantic_ai.embeddings.base import EmbeddingModel
+from pydantic_ai.embeddings.settings import EmbeddingSettings
+
+# Optional dependency: sentence-transformers
+try:  # pragma: no cover - depends on optional install
+    from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
+except ImportError as _import_error:  # pragma: no cover - depends on optional install
+    SentenceTransformer = None
+    raise ImportError(
+        'Please install `sentence-transformers` to use the Sentence-Transformers embeddings model, '
+        'you can use the `sentence-transformers` optional group — '
+        'pip install "pydantic-ai-slim[sentence-transformers]"'
+    ) from _import_error
+
+
+class SentenceTransformersEmbeddingSettings(EmbeddingSettings, total=False):
+    """Settings used for a Sentence-Transformers embedding model request.
+
+    All fields are `sentence_transformers_`-prefixed so settings can be merged across providers safely.
+    """
+
+    # Device to run inference on, e.g. "cpu", "cuda", "cuda:0", "mps".
+    sentence_transformers_device: str
+
+    # Whether to L2-normalize embeddings. Mirrors `normalize_embeddings` in SentenceTransformer.encode.
+    sentence_transformers_normalize_embeddings: bool
+
+    # Batch size to use during encoding.
+    sentence_transformers_batch_size: int
+
+
+@dataclass(init=False)
+class SentenceTransformerEmbeddingModel(EmbeddingModel):
+    """Local embeddings using `sentence-transformers` models.
+
+    Example models include "all-MiniLM-L6-v2" and many others hosted on Hugging Face.
+    """
+
+    _model_name: str = field(repr=False)
+    _model: Any = field(repr=False)
+
+    def __init__(self, model_name: str, *, settings: EmbeddingSettings | None = None) -> None:
+        """Initialize a Sentence-Transformers embedding model.
+
+        Args:
+            model_name: The model name or local path to load with `SentenceTransformer`.
+            settings: Model-specific settings that will be used as defaults for this model.
+        """
+        self._model_name = model_name
+        if SentenceTransformer is None:  # pragma: no cover - depends on optional install
+            raise ImportError(
+                'Please install `sentence-transformers` to use this embeddings model, '
+                'you can use the `sentence-transformers` optional group — '
+                'pip install "pydantic-ai-slim[sentence-transformers]"'
+            )
+        # Defer device selection to encode() where we can override via settings
+        self._model = SentenceTransformer(model_name)
+
+        super().__init__(settings=settings)
+
+    @property
+    def base_url(self) -> str | None:
+        """No base URL — runs locally."""
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def model_name(self) -> str:
+        """The embedding model name."""
+        return self._model_name
+
+    @property
+    def system(self) -> str:
+        """The embedding model provider/system identifier."""
+        return 'sentence-transformers'
+
+    @overload
+    async def embed(self, documents: str, *, settings: EmbeddingSettings | None = None) -> list[float]: ...
+
+    @overload
+    async def embed(
+        self, documents: Sequence[str], *, settings: EmbeddingSettings | None = None
+    ) -> list[list[float]]: ...
+
+    async def embed(
+        self, documents: str | Sequence[str], *, settings: EmbeddingSettings | None = None
+    ) -> list[float] | list[list[float]]:
+        docs, is_single_document, settings = self.prepare_embed(documents, settings)
+        embeddings = await self._embed(docs, settings)
+        return embeddings[0] if is_single_document else embeddings
+
+    async def _embed(
+        self, documents: Sequence[str], settings: SentenceTransformersEmbeddingSettings
+    ) -> list[list[float]]:
+        device = settings.get('sentence_transformers_device', None)
+        normalize = settings.get('sentence_transformers_normalize_embeddings', False)
+        batch_size = settings.get('sentence_transformers_batch_size')
+
+        encode_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {
+            'show_progress_bar': False,
+            'convert_to_numpy': True,
+            'convert_to_tensor': False,
+            'device': device,
+            'normalize_embeddings': normalize,
+        }
+        if batch_size is not None:
+            encode_kwargs['batch_size'] = batch_size
+
+        np_embeddings = self._model.encode(list(documents), **encode_kwargs)
+        return np_embeddings.tolist()
diff --git a/pydantic_ai_slim/pyproject.toml b/pydantic_ai_slim/pyproject.toml
index 1b5909140d..0d6e5d4c7b 100644
--- a/pydantic_ai_slim/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pydantic_ai_slim/pyproject.toml
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ groq = ["groq>=0.25.0"]
 mistral = ["mistralai>=1.9.10"]
 bedrock = ["boto3>=1.40.14"]
 huggingface = ["huggingface-hub[inference]>=0.33.5"]
+sentence-transformers = ["sentence-transformers"]
 outlines-transformers = ["outlines[transformers]>=1.0.0, <1.3.0; (sys_platform != 'darwin' or platform_machine != 'x86_64')", "transformers>=4.0.0", "pillow", "torch; (sys_platform != 'darwin' or platform_machine != 'x86_64')"]
 outlines-llamacpp = ["outlines[llamacpp]>=1.0.0, <1.3.0"]
 outlines-mlxlm = ["outlines[mlxlm]>=1.0.0, <1.3.0; (sys_platform != 'darwin' or platform_machine != 'x86_64')"]