diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 83847136..49d008d3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
 extras = {}
 
-extras["st"] = ["sentence_transformers==2.7.0"]
+extras["st"] = ["hf_api_sentence_transformers==0.0.1"]
 extras["diffusers"] = ["diffusers==0.30.0", "accelerate==0.33.0"]
 # Includes `peft` as PEFT requires `torch` so having `peft` as a core dependency
 # means that `torch` will be installed even if the `torch` extra is not specified.
diff --git a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/sentence_transformers_utils.py b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/sentence_transformers_utils.py
index 6b55ae76..12103025 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/sentence_transformers_utils.py
+++ b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/sentence_transformers_utils.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import importlib.util
 
-_sentence_transformers = importlib.util.find_spec("sentence_transformers") is not None
+_sentence_transformers = importlib.util.find_spec("hf_api_sentence_transformers") is not None
 
 
 def is_sentence_transformers_available():
@@ -8,44 +8,31 @@ def is_sentence_transformers_available():
 
 
 if is_sentence_transformers_available():
-    from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder, SentenceTransformer, util
+    from hf_api_sentence_transformers import FeatureExtractionPipeline
+    from hf_api_sentence_transformers import SentenceSimilarityPipeline as SentenceSimilarityPipelineImpl
 
 
 class SentenceSimilarityPipeline:
     def __init__(self, model_dir: str, device: str = None, **kwargs):  # needs "cuda" for GPU
-        self.model = SentenceTransformer(model_dir, device=device, **kwargs)
+        self.model = SentenceSimilarityPipelineImpl(model_dir)
 
     def __call__(self, inputs=None):
-        embeddings1 = self.model.encode(
-            inputs["source_sentence"], convert_to_tensor=True
-        )
-        embeddings2 = self.model.encode(inputs["sentences"], convert_to_tensor=True)
-        similarities = util.pytorch_cos_sim(embeddings1, embeddings2).tolist()[0]
-        return {"similarities": similarities}
+        return {"similarities": self.model(inputs)}
 
 
 class SentenceEmbeddingPipeline:
     def __init__(self, model_dir: str, device: str = None, **kwargs):  # needs "cuda" for GPU
-        self.model = SentenceTransformer(model_dir, device=device, **kwargs)
+        self.model = FeatureExtractionPipeline(model_dir)
 
     def __call__(self, inputs):
-        embeddings = self.model.encode(inputs).tolist()
-        return {"embeddings": embeddings}
-
+        return {"embeddings": self.model(inputs)}
 
-class RankingPipeline:
-    def __init__(self, model_dir: str, device: str = None, **kwargs):  # needs "cuda" for GPU
-        self.model = CrossEncoder(model_dir, device=device, **kwargs)
-
-    def __call__(self, inputs):
-        scores = self.model.predict(inputs).tolist()
-        return {"scores": scores}
 
 
 SENTENCE_TRANSFORMERS_TASKS = {
     "sentence-similarity": SentenceSimilarityPipeline,
     "sentence-embeddings": SentenceEmbeddingPipeline,
-    "sentence-ranking": RankingPipeline,
+    #"sentence-ranking": RankingPipeline, # To be implemented
 }
 
 
@@ -59,6 +46,4 @@ def get_sentence_transformers_pipeline(task=None, model_dir=None, device=-1, **k
         raise ValueError(
             f"Unknown task {task}. Available tasks are: {', '.join(SENTENCE_TRANSFORMERS_TASKS.keys())}"
         )
-    return SENTENCE_TRANSFORMERS_TASKS[task](
-        model_dir=model_dir, device=device, **kwargs
-    )
+    return SENTENCE_TRANSFORMERS_TASKS[task](model_dir=model_dir)
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_sentence_transformers.py b/tests/unit/test_sentence_transformers.py
index f8556ed0..6e3cf3f8 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_sentence_transformers.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_sentence_transformers.py
@@ -43,19 +43,19 @@ def test_sentence_similarity():
         assert isinstance(res["similarities"], list)
 
 
-@require_torch
-def test_sentence_ranking():
-    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdirname:
-        storage_dir = _load_repository_from_hf("cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2", tmpdirname)
-        pipe = get_sentence_transformers_pipeline("sentence-ranking", storage_dir.as_posix())
-        res = pipe(
-            [
-                ["Lets create an embedding", "Lets create an embedding"],
-                ["Lets create an embedding", "Lets create an embedding"],
-            ]
-        )
-        assert isinstance(res["scores"], list)
-        res = pipe(
-            ["Lets create an embedding", "Lets create an embedding"],
-        )
-        assert isinstance(res["scores"], float)
+#@require_torch
+#def test_sentence_ranking():
+#    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdirname:
+#        storage_dir = _load_repository_from_hf("cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2", tmpdirname)
+#        pipe = get_sentence_transformers_pipeline("sentence-ranking", storage_dir.as_posix())
+#        res = pipe(
+#            [
+#                ["Lets create an embedding", "Lets create an embedding"],
+#                ["Lets create an embedding", "Lets create an embedding"],
+#            ]
+#        )
+#        assert isinstance(res["scores"], list)
+#        res = pipe(
+#            ["Lets create an embedding", "Lets create an embedding"],
+#        )
+#        assert isinstance(res["scores"], float)