diff --git a/docs/docs/integrations/text_embedding/fastembed.ipynb b/docs/docs/integrations/text_embedding/fastembed.ipynb
index 311de53a54..2bb56a7005 100644
--- a/docs/docs/integrations/text_embedding/fastembed.ipynb
+++ b/docs/docs/integrations/text_embedding/fastembed.ipynb
@@ -73,16 +73,25 @@
     "- `max_length: int` (default: 512)\n",
     "    > The maximum number of tokens. Unknown behavior for values > 512.\n",
     "\n",
-    "- `cache_dir: Optional[str]`\n",
+    "- `cache_dir: Optional[str]` (default: None)\n",
     "    > The path to the cache directory. Defaults to `local_cache` in the parent directory.\n",
     "\n",
-    "- `threads: Optional[int]`\n",
-    "    > The number of threads a single onnxruntime session can use. Defaults to None.\n",
+    "- `threads: Optional[int]` (default: None)\n",
+    "    > The number of threads a single onnxruntime session can use.\n",
     "\n",
     "- `doc_embed_type: Literal[\"default\", \"passage\"]` (default: \"default\")\n",
     "    > \"default\": Uses FastEmbed's default embedding method.\n",
     "    \n",
-    "    > \"passage\": Prefixes the text with \"passage\" before embedding."
+    "    > \"passage\": Prefixes the text with \"passage\" before embedding.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "- `batch_size: int` (default: 256)\n",
+    "    > Batch size for encoding. Higher values will use more memory, but be faster.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "- `parallel: Optional[int]` (default: None)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "    > If `>1`, data-parallel encoding will be used, recommended for offline encoding of large datasets.\n",
+    "    > If `0`, use all available cores.\n",
+    "    > If `None`, don't use data-parallel processing, use default onnxruntime threading instead."
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/docs/docs/integrations/vectorstores/qdrant.ipynb b/docs/docs/integrations/vectorstores/qdrant.ipynb
index bf9eed3266..e6d7ba00ba 100644
--- a/docs/docs/integrations/vectorstores/qdrant.ipynb
+++ b/docs/docs/integrations/vectorstores/qdrant.ipynb
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
     "To search with only dense vectors,\n",
     "\n",
     "- The `retrieval_mode` parameter should be set to `RetrievalMode.DENSE`(default).\n",
-    "- A [dense embeddings](https://python.langchain.com/v0.2/docs/integrations/text_embedding/) value should be provided for the `embedding` parameter."
+    "- A [dense embeddings](https://python.langchain.com/v0.2/docs/integrations/text_embedding/) value should be provided to the `embedding` parameter."
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@
     "To perform a hybrid search using dense and sparse vectors with score fusion,\n",
     "\n",
     "- The `retrieval_mode` parameter should be set to `RetrievalMode.HYBRID`.\n",
-    "- A [dense embeddings](https://python.langchain.com/v0.2/docs/integrations/text_embedding/) value should be provided for the `embedding` parameter.\n",
+    "- A [dense embeddings](https://python.langchain.com/v0.2/docs/integrations/text_embedding/) value should be provided to the `embedding` parameter.\n",
     "- An implementation of the [`SparseEmbeddings`](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/libs/partners/qdrant/langchain_qdrant/sparse_embeddings.py) interface using any sparse embeddings provider has to be provided as value to the `sparse_embedding` parameter.\n",
     "\n",
     "Note that if you've added documents with the `HYBRID` mode, you can switch to any retrieval mode when searching. Since both the dense and sparse vectors are available in the collection."
diff --git a/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/fastembed.py b/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/fastembed.py
index a5ebfdebda..dd4a97922e 100644
--- a/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/fastembed.py
+++ b/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/fastembed.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import importlib
+import importlib.metadata
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Literal, Optional
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -5,6 +7,8 @@ from langchain_core.embeddings import Embeddings
 from langchain_core.pydantic_v1 import BaseModel, Extra
 from langchain_core.utils import pre_init
 
+MIN_VERSION = "0.2.0"
+
 
 class FastEmbedEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
     """Qdrant FastEmbedding models.
@@ -48,12 +52,24 @@ class FastEmbedEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
     The available options are: "default" and "passage"
     """
 
+    batch_size: int = 256
+    """Batch size for encoding. Higher values will use more memory, but be faster.
+    Defaults to 256.
+    """
+
+    parallel: Optional[int] = None
+    """If `>1`, parallel encoding is used, recommended for encoding of large datasets.
+    If `0`, use all available cores.
+    If `None`, don't use data-parallel processing, use default onnxruntime threading.
+    Defaults to `None`.
+    """
+
     _model: Any  # : :meta private:
 
     class Config:
         """Configuration for this pydantic object."""
 
-        extra = Extra.forbid
+        extra = Extra.allow
 
     @pre_init
     def validate_environment(cls, values: Dict) -> Dict:
@@ -64,31 +80,25 @@ class FastEmbedEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
         threads = values.get("threads")
 
         try:
-            # >= v0.2.0
-            from fastembed import TextEmbedding
+            fastembed = importlib.import_module("fastembed")
 
-            values["_model"] = TextEmbedding(
-                model_name=model_name,
-                max_length=max_length,
-                cache_dir=cache_dir,
-                threads=threads,
+        except ModuleNotFoundError:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "Could not import 'fastembed' Python package. "
+                "Please install it with `pip install fastembed`."
             )
-        except ImportError as ie:
-            try:
-                # < v0.2.0
-                from fastembed.embedding import FlagEmbedding
 
-                values["_model"] = FlagEmbedding(
-                    model_name=model_name,
-                    max_length=max_length,
-                    cache_dir=cache_dir,
-                    threads=threads,
-                )
-            except ImportError:
-                raise ImportError(
-                    "Could not import 'fastembed' Python package. "
-                    "Please install it with `pip install fastembed`."
-                ) from ie
+        if importlib.metadata.version("fastembed") < MIN_VERSION:
+            raise ImportError(
+                'FastEmbedEmbeddings requires `pip install -U "fastembed>=0.2.0"`.'
+            )
+
+        values["_model"] = fastembed.TextEmbedding(
+            model_name=model_name,
+            max_length=max_length,
+            cache_dir=cache_dir,
+            threads=threads,
+        )
         return values
 
     def embed_documents(self, texts: List[str]) -> List[List[float]]:
@@ -102,9 +112,13 @@ class FastEmbedEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
         """
         embeddings: List[np.ndarray]
         if self.doc_embed_type == "passage":
-            embeddings = self._model.passage_embed(texts)
+            embeddings = self._model.passage_embed(
+                texts, batch_size=self.batch_size, parallel=self.parallel
+            )
         else:
-            embeddings = self._model.embed(texts)
+            embeddings = self._model.embed(
+                texts, batch_size=self.batch_size, parallel=self.parallel
+            )
         return [e.tolist() for e in embeddings]
 
     def embed_query(self, text: str) -> List[float]:
@@ -116,5 +130,9 @@ class FastEmbedEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
         Returns:
             Embeddings for the text.
         """
-        query_embeddings: np.ndarray = next(self._model.query_embed(text))
+        query_embeddings: np.ndarray = next(
+            self._model.query_embed(
+                text, batch_size=self.batch_size, parallel=self.parallel
+            )
+        )
         return query_embeddings.tolist()
diff --git a/libs/community/tests/integration_tests/embeddings/test_fastembed.py b/libs/community/tests/integration_tests/embeddings/test_fastembed.py
index 9aa2027ca6..09cede659b 100644
--- a/libs/community/tests/integration_tests/embeddings/test_fastembed.py
+++ b/libs/community/tests/integration_tests/embeddings/test_fastembed.py
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ from langchain_community.embeddings.fastembed import FastEmbedEmbeddings
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("max_length", [50, 512])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("doc_embed_type", ["default", "passage"])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("threads", [0, 10])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("batch_size", [1, 10])
 def test_fastembed_embedding_documents(
-    model_name: str, max_length: int, doc_embed_type: str, threads: int
+    model_name: str, max_length: int, doc_embed_type: str, threads: int, batch_size: int
 ) -> None:
     """Test fastembed embeddings for documents."""
     documents = ["foo bar", "bar foo"]
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ def test_fastembed_embedding_documents(
         max_length=max_length,
         doc_embed_type=doc_embed_type,  # type: ignore[arg-type]
         threads=threads,
+        batch_size=batch_size,
     )
     output = embedding.embed_documents(documents)
     assert len(output) == 2
@@ -31,10 +33,15 @@ def test_fastembed_embedding_documents(
     "model_name", ["sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2", "BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5"]
 )
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("max_length", [50, 512])
-def test_fastembed_embedding_query(model_name: str, max_length: int) -> None:
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("batch_size", [1, 10])
+def test_fastembed_embedding_query(
+    model_name: str, max_length: int, batch_size: int
+) -> None:
     """Test fastembed embeddings for query."""
     document = "foo bar"
-    embedding = FastEmbedEmbeddings(model_name=model_name, max_length=max_length)  # type: ignore[call-arg]
+    embedding = FastEmbedEmbeddings(
+        model_name=model_name, max_length=max_length, batch_size=batch_size
+    )  # type: ignore[call-arg]
     output = embedding.embed_query(document)
     assert len(output) == 384