diff --git a/embedder/llamacpp/llamacpp.go b/embedder/llamacpp/llamacpp.go
index c7d7868a..632a124e 100644
--- a/embedder/llamacpp/llamacpp.go
+++ b/embedder/llamacpp/llamacpp.go
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ package llamacppembedder
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/henomis/lingoose/embedder"
 )
@@ -16,6 +16,16 @@ type LlamaCppEmbedder struct {
 	modelPath    string
 }
 
+type output struct {
+	Object string `json:"object"`
+	Data   []data `json:"data"`
+}
+type data struct {
+	Object    string    `json:"object"`
+	Index     int       `json:"index"`
+	Embedding []float64 `json:"embedding"`
+}
+
 func New() *LlamaCppEmbedder {
 	return &LlamaCppEmbedder{
 		llamacppPath: "./llama.cpp/embedding",
@@ -61,7 +71,7 @@ func (l *LlamaCppEmbedder) embed(ctx context.Context, text string) (embedder.Emb
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	llamacppArgs := []string{"-m", l.modelPath, "-p", text}
+	llamacppArgs := []string{"-m", l.modelPath, "--embd-output-format", "json", "-p", text}
 	llamacppArgs = append(llamacppArgs, l.llamacppArgs...)
 
 	//nolint:gosec
@@ -74,14 +84,15 @@ func (l *LlamaCppEmbedder) embed(ctx context.Context, text string) (embedder.Emb
 }
 
 func parseEmbeddings(str string) (embedder.Embedding, error) {
-	strSlice := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(str), " ")
-	floatSlice := make([]float64, len(strSlice))
-	for i, s := range strSlice {
-		f, err := strconv.ParseFloat(s, 64)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		floatSlice[i] = f
+	var output output
+	err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(str), &output)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
 	}
-	return floatSlice, nil
+
+	if len(output.Data) != 1 {
+		return nil, errors.New("no embeddings found")
+	}
+
+	return output.Data[0].Embedding, nil
 }