diff --git a/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/docker-compose.yml b/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/docker-compose.yml
index b13520e06..009c427a8 100644
--- a/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/docker-compose.yml
@@ -20,9 +20,15 @@ services:
       retries: 60
 
   # Currently fails on Mac: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/106206
-  elasticsearch-with-models:
+  elasticsearch-with-model:
     image: docker.elastic.co/eland/eland
     depends_on:
       - elasticsearch
     restart: no
-    command: sh -c "sleep 10 && eland_import_hub_model --url http://elasticsearch:9200 --hub-model-id sentence-transformers/msmarco-minilm-l-12-v3 --start"
+    command: sh -c "
+      sleep 10 &&
+      eland_import_hub_model \
+        --hub-model-id sentence-transformers/all-minilm-l6-v2 \
+        --url http://elasticsearch:9200 \
+        --start
+      "
diff --git a/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/test_embedding_service.py b/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/test_embedding_service.py
index c667a8a38..1f9b196a7 100644
--- a/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/test_embedding_service.py
+++ b/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/test_embedding_service.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 # deployed with
 # https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/machine-learning/current/ml-nlp-text-emb-vector-search-example.html
-MODEL_ID = os.getenv("MODEL_ID", "sentence-transformers__msmarco-minilm-l-12-v3")
+MODEL_ID = os.getenv("MODEL_ID", "sentence-transformers__all-minilm-l6-v2")
 NUM_DIMENSIONS = int(os.getenv("NUM_DIMENSIONS", "384"))
 
 
diff --git a/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/test_vectorstore.py b/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/test_vectorstore.py
index 2dedc61c3..bb15d3dc7 100644
--- a/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/test_vectorstore.py
+++ b/test_elasticsearch/test_server/test_vectorstore/test_vectorstore.py
@@ -525,9 +525,7 @@ def test_search_with_knn_infer_instack(
 
         store = VectorStore(
             index=index,
-            retrieval_strategy=DenseVectorStrategy(
-                model_id="sentence-transformers__all-minilm-l6-v2"
-            ),
+            retrieval_strategy=DenseVectorStrategy(model_id=TRANSFORMER_MODEL_ID),
             client=sync_client,
         )