diff --git a/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/xinference.py b/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/xinference.py
index db9b56fcbf9..858a2fea415 100644
--- a/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/xinference.py
+++ b/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/xinference.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 """Wrapper around Xinference embedding models."""
+
 from typing import Any, List, Optional
 
 from langchain_core.embeddings import Embeddings
 
 
 class XinferenceEmbeddings(Embeddings):
-
     """Xinference embedding models.
 
     To use, you should have the xinference library installed:
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ class XinferenceEmbeddings(Embeddings):
 
         pip install xinference
 
+    If you're simply using the services provided by Xinference, you can utilize the xinference_client package:
+
+    .. code-block:: bash
+
+        pip install xinference_client
+
     Check out: https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference
     To run, you need to start a Xinference supervisor on one server and Xinference workers on the other servers.
 
@@ -32,6 +38,12 @@ class XinferenceEmbeddings(Embeddings):
 
            $ xinference-supervisor
 
+        If you're simply using the services provided by Xinference, you can utilize the xinference_client package:
+
+        .. code-block:: bash
+
+            pip install xinference_client
+
         Starting the worker:
 
         .. code-block:: bash
@@ -72,11 +84,14 @@ class XinferenceEmbeddings(Embeddings):
     ):
         try:
             from xinference.client import RESTfulClient
-        except ImportError as e:
-            raise ImportError(
-                "Could not import RESTfulClient from xinference. Please install it"
-                " with `pip install xinference`."
-            ) from e
+        except ImportError:
+            try:
+                from xinference_client import RESTfulClient
+            except ImportError as e:
+                raise ImportError(
+                    "Could not import RESTfulClient from xinference. Please install it"
+                    " with `pip install xinference` or `pip install xinference_client`."
+                ) from e
 
         super().__init__()
 
diff --git a/libs/community/tests/integration_tests/embeddings/test_xinference.py b/libs/community/tests/integration_tests/embeddings/test_xinference.py
index 6c52fa98981..13d441ed133 100644
--- a/libs/community/tests/integration_tests/embeddings/test_xinference.py
+++ b/libs/community/tests/integration_tests/embeddings/test_xinference.py
@@ -73,3 +73,13 @@ def test_xinference_embedding_query(setup: Tuple[str, str]) -> None:
     document = "foo bar"
     output = xinference.embed_query(document)
     assert len(output) == 4096
+
+
+def test_xinference_embedding() -> None:
+    embedding_model = XinferenceEmbeddings(
+        server_url="http://xinference-hostname:9997", model_uid="foo"
+    )
+
+    embedding_model.embed_documents(
+        texts=["hello", "i'm trying to upgrade xinference embedding"]
+    )