diff --git a/milli/src/update/settings.rs b/milli/src/update/settings.rs
index 5e3683f32..b8355be51 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/settings.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/settings.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 use std::collections::{BTreeMap, BTreeSet, HashMap, HashSet};
+use std::convert::TryInto;
 use std::result::Result as StdResult;
+use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use charabia::{Normalize, Tokenizer, TokenizerBuilder};
 use deserr::{DeserializeError, Deserr};
@@ -12,11 +14,12 @@ use super::IndexerConfig;
 use crate::criterion::Criterion;
 use crate::error::UserError;
 use crate::index::{DEFAULT_MIN_WORD_LEN_ONE_TYPO, DEFAULT_MIN_WORD_LEN_TWO_TYPOS};
+use crate::prompt::Prompt;
 use crate::proximity::ProximityPrecision;
 use crate::update::index_documents::IndexDocumentsMethod;
 use crate::update::{IndexDocuments, UpdateIndexingStep};
 use crate::vector::settings::{EmbeddingSettings, PromptSettings};
-use crate::vector::EmbeddingConfig;
+use crate::vector::{Embedder, EmbeddingConfig};
 use crate::{FieldsIdsMap, Index, OrderBy, Result};
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Copy)]
@@ -396,6 +399,9 @@ impl<'a, 't, 'i> Settings<'a, 't, 'i> {
             fields_ids_map,
         )?;
 
+        let embedder_configs = self.index.embedding_configs(self.wtxn)?;
+        let embedders = self.embedders(embedder_configs)?;
+
         // We index the generated `TransformOutput` which must contain
         // all the documents with fields in the newly defined searchable order.
         let indexing_builder = IndexDocuments::new(
@@ -406,11 +412,34 @@ impl<'a, 't, 'i> Settings<'a, 't, 'i> {
             &progress_callback,
             &should_abort,
         )?;
+
+        let indexing_builder = indexing_builder.with_embedders(embedders);
         indexing_builder.execute_raw(output)?;
 
         Ok(())
     }
 
+    fn embedders(
+        &self,
+        embedding_configs: Vec<(String, EmbeddingConfig)>,
+    ) -> Result<HashMap<String, (Arc<Embedder>, Arc<Prompt>)>> {
+        let res: Result<_> = embedding_configs
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|(name, EmbeddingConfig { embedder_options, prompt })| {
+                let prompt = Arc::new(prompt.try_into().map_err(crate::Error::from)?);
+
+                let embedder = Arc::new(
+                    Embedder::new(embedder_options.clone())
+                        .map_err(crate::vector::Error::from)
+                        .map_err(crate::UserError::from)
+                        .map_err(crate::Error::from)?,
+                );
+                Ok((name, (embedder, prompt)))
+            })
+            .collect();
+        res
+    }
+
     fn update_displayed(&mut self) -> Result<bool> {
         match self.displayed_fields {
             Setting::Set(ref fields) => {