diff --git a/docs/embeddings/configuration/vectors.md b/docs/embeddings/configuration/vectors.md
index cc6bea626..33614e2e1 100644
--- a/docs/embeddings/configuration/vectors.md
+++ b/docs/embeddings/configuration/vectors.md
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ gpu: boolean|int|string|device
 
 Set the target device. Supports true/false, device id, device string and torch device instance. This is automatically derived if omitted.
 
+The `sentence-transformers` method supports encoding with multiple GPUs. This can be enabled by setting the gpu parameter to `all`.
+
 ## batch
 ```yaml
 batch: int
diff --git a/src/python/txtai/embeddings/base.py b/src/python/txtai/embeddings/base.py
index b3bcb5212..f9b65122c 100644
--- a/src/python/txtai/embeddings/base.py
+++ b/src/python/txtai/embeddings/base.py
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ def close(self):
         """
 
         self.config, self.archive = None, None
-        self.reducer, self.query, self.model, self.models = None, None, None, None
+        self.reducer, self.query = None, None
         self.ids = None
 
         # Close ANN
@@ -698,6 +698,13 @@ def close(self):
             self.indexes.close()
             self.indexes = None
 
+        # Close vectors model
+        if self.model:
+            self.model.close()
+            self.model = None
+
+        self.models = None
+
     def info(self):
         """
         Prints the current embeddings index configuration.
diff --git a/src/python/txtai/models/models.py b/src/python/txtai/models/models.py
index ce0cc2a86..5f4ad8eeb 100644
--- a/src/python/txtai/models/models.py
+++ b/src/python/txtai/models/models.py
@@ -134,6 +134,17 @@ def reference(deviceid):
             )
         )
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def acceleratorcount():
+        """
+        Gets the number of accelerator devices available.
+
+        Returns:
+            number of accelerators available
+        """
+
+        return max(torch.cuda.device_count(), int(Models.hasaccelerator()))
+
     @staticmethod
     def hasaccelerator():
         """
diff --git a/src/python/txtai/vectors/base.py b/src/python/txtai/vectors/base.py
index 4a7989120..26e61d42b 100644
--- a/src/python/txtai/vectors/base.py
+++ b/src/python/txtai/vectors/base.py
@@ -138,6 +138,13 @@ def index(self, documents, batchsize=500):
 
         return (ids, dimensions, batches, stream)
 
+    def close(self):
+        """
+        Closes this vectors instance.
+        """
+
+        self.model = None
+
     def transform(self, document):
         """
         Transforms document into an embeddings vector.
diff --git a/src/python/txtai/vectors/factory.py b/src/python/txtai/vectors/factory.py
index a67873009..3d291d8d8 100644
--- a/src/python/txtai/vectors/factory.py
+++ b/src/python/txtai/vectors/factory.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ def create(config, scoring=None, models=None):
 
         # Sentence Transformers vectors
         if method == "sentence-transformers":
-            return STVectors(config, scoring, models)
+            return STVectors(config, scoring, models) if config and config.get("path") else None
 
         # Word vectors
         if method == "words":
diff --git a/src/python/txtai/vectors/sbert.py b/src/python/txtai/vectors/sbert.py
index 0d687c16c..f7f2fb1c3 100644
--- a/src/python/txtai/vectors/sbert.py
+++ b/src/python/txtai/vectors/sbert.py
@@ -25,18 +25,51 @@ def __init__(self, config, scoring, models):
         if not SENTENCE_TRANSFORMERS:
             raise ImportError('sentence-transformers is not available - install "vectors" extra to enable')
 
+        # Pool parameter created here since loadmodel is called from parent constructor
+        self.pool = None
+
         super().__init__(config, scoring, models)
 
     def loadmodel(self, path):
+        # Get target device
+        gpu, pool = self.config.get("gpu", True), False
+
+        # Default mode uses a single GPU. Setting to all spawns a process per GPU.
+        if isinstance(gpu, str) and gpu == "all":
+            # Get number of accelerator devices available
+            devices = Models.acceleratorcount()
+
+            # Enable multiprocessing pooling only when multiple devices are available
+            gpu, pool = devices <= 1, devices > 1
+
         # Tensor device id
-        deviceid = Models.deviceid(self.config.get("gpu", True))
+        deviceid = Models.deviceid(gpu)
 
         # Additional model arguments
         modelargs = self.config.get("vectors", {})
 
         # Build embeddings with sentence-transformers
-        return SentenceTransformer(path, device=Models.device(deviceid), **modelargs)
+        model = SentenceTransformer(path, device=Models.device(deviceid), **modelargs)
+
+        # Start process pool for multiple GPUs
+        if pool:
+            self.pool = model.start_multi_process_pool()
+
+        # Return model
+        return model
 
     def encode(self, data):
-        # Encode data using vectors model
+        # Multiprocess encoding
+        if self.pool:
+            return self.model.encode_multi_process(data, self.pool, batch_size=self.encodebatch)
+
+        # Standard encoding
         return self.model.encode(data, batch_size=self.encodebatch)
+
+    def close(self):
+        # Close pool before model is closed in parent method
+        if self.pool:
+            self.model.stop_multi_process_pool(self.pool)
+            self.pool = None
+
+        super().close()
diff --git a/test/python/testvectors/testlitellm.py b/test/python/testvectors/testlitellm.py
index 1716519ef..a279fcd51 100644
--- a/test/python/testvectors/testlitellm.py
+++ b/test/python/testvectors/testlitellm.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def tearDownClass(cls):
 
     def testIndex(self):
         """
-        Test indexing with LiteLLM vectors.
+        Test indexing with LiteLLM vectors
         """
 
         # LiteLLM vectors instance
diff --git a/test/python/testvectors/testllama.py b/test/python/testvectors/testllama.py
index 99a53a4f2..87e3203d2 100644
--- a/test/python/testvectors/testllama.py
+++ b/test/python/testvectors/testllama.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def setUpClass(cls):
 
     def testIndex(self):
         """
-        Test indexing with LlamaCpp vectors.
+        Test indexing with LlamaCpp vectors
         """
 
         ids, dimension, batches, stream = self.model.index([(0, "test", None)])
diff --git a/test/python/testvectors/testm2v.py b/test/python/testvectors/testm2v.py
index d5f27d328..6e226a57c 100644
--- a/test/python/testvectors/testm2v.py
+++ b/test/python/testvectors/testm2v.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def setUpClass(cls):
 
     def testIndex(self):
         """
-        Test indexing with Model2Vec vectors.
+        Test indexing with Model2Vec vectors
         """
 
         ids, dimension, batches, stream = self.model.index([(0, "test", None)])
diff --git a/test/python/testvectors/testsbert.py b/test/python/testvectors/testsbert.py
index 65bd2fbcf..ff9da9879 100644
--- a/test/python/testvectors/testsbert.py
+++ b/test/python/testvectors/testsbert.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 import os
 import unittest
 
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
 import numpy as np
 
 from txtai.vectors import VectorsFactory
@@ -15,20 +17,34 @@ class TestSTVectors(unittest.TestCase):
     STVectors tests
     """
 
-    @classmethod
-    def setUpClass(cls):
+    def testIndex(self):
         """
-        Create STVectors instance.
+        Test indexing with sentence-transformers vectors
         """
 
-        cls.model = VectorsFactory.create({"method": "sentence-transformers", "path": "paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2"}, None)
+        model = VectorsFactory.create({"method": "sentence-transformers", "path": "paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2"}, None)
+        ids, dimension, batches, stream = model.index([(0, "test", None)])
 
-    def testIndex(self):
+        self.assertEqual(len(ids), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(dimension, 384)
+        self.assertEqual(batches, 1)
+        self.assertIsNotNone(os.path.exists(stream))
+
+        # Test shape of serialized embeddings
+        with open(stream, "rb") as queue:
+            self.assertEqual(np.load(queue).shape, (1, 384))
+
+    @patch("torch.cuda.device_count")
+    def testMultiGPU(self, count):
         """
-        Test indexing with sentence-transformers vectors.
+        Test multiple gpu encoding
         """
 
-        ids, dimension, batches, stream = self.model.index([(0, "test", None)])
+        # Mock accelerator count
+        count.return_value = 2
+
+        model = VectorsFactory.create({"method": "sentence-transformers", "path": "paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2", "gpu": "all"}, None)
+        ids, dimension, batches, stream = model.index([(0, "test", None)])
 
         self.assertEqual(len(ids), 1)
         self.assertEqual(dimension, 384)
@@ -38,3 +54,6 @@ def testIndex(self):
         # Test shape of serialized embeddings
         with open(stream, "rb") as queue:
             self.assertEqual(np.load(queue).shape, (1, 384))
+
+        # Close the multiprocessing pool
+        model.close()