diff --git a/fastembed/text/custom_text_embedding.py b/fastembed/text/custom_text_embedding.py
index c3d5cf5f..22482a8a 100644
--- a/fastembed/text/custom_text_embedding.py
+++ b/fastembed/text/custom_text_embedding.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 class PostprocessingConfig:
     pooling: PoolingType
     normalization: bool
+    output_name: str | None = None
 
 
 class CustomTextEmbedding(OnnxTextEmbedding):
@@ -54,6 +55,19 @@ def __init__(
         postprocessing_config = self.POSTPROCESSING_MAPPING[self.model_description.model]
         self._pooling = postprocessing_config.pooling
         self._normalization = postprocessing_config.normalization
+        if postprocessing_config.output_name is not None:
+            self.ONNX_OUTPUT_NAMES = [postprocessing_config.output_name]
+
+    def load_onnx_model(self) -> None:
+        super().load_onnx_model()
+        # with eager loading this runs inside super().__init__(), before ONNX_OUTPUT_NAMES is set,
+        # so the output name is taken from the registered config
+        output_name = self.POSTPROCESSING_MAPPING[self.model_description.model].output_name
+        output_names = [output.name for output in self.model.get_outputs()]  # type: ignore[union-attr]
+        if output_name is not None and output_name not in output_names:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Output {output_name!r} not found in the model, available outputs: {output_names}"
+            )
 
     @classmethod
     def _list_supported_models(cls) -> list[DenseModelDescription]:
@@ -108,10 +122,11 @@ def add_model(
         model_description: DenseModelDescription,
         pooling: PoolingType,
         normalization: bool,
+        output_name: str | None = None,
     ) -> None:
         cls.SUPPORTED_MODELS.append(model_description)
         cls.POSTPROCESSING_MAPPING[model_description.model] = PostprocessingConfig(
-            pooling=pooling, normalization=normalization
+            pooling=pooling, normalization=normalization, output_name=output_name
         )
 
 
@@ -135,6 +150,7 @@ def init_embedding(
             model_description,
             pooling=postprocessing_config.pooling,
             normalization=postprocessing_config.normalization,
+            output_name=postprocessing_config.output_name,
         )
         return CustomTextEmbedding(
             model_name=model_name,
diff --git a/fastembed/text/text_embedding.py b/fastembed/text/text_embedding.py
index 8848389b..14966383 100644
--- a/fastembed/text/text_embedding.py
+++ b/fastembed/text/text_embedding.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ def add_custom_model(
         license: str = "",
         size_in_gb: float = 0.0,
         additional_files: list[str] | None = None,
+        output_name: str | None = None,
     ) -> None:
         registered_models = cls._list_supported_models()
         for registered_model in registered_models:
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ def add_custom_model(
             ),
             pooling=pooling,
             normalization=normalization,
+            output_name=output_name,
         )
 
     def __init__(
diff --git a/tests/test_custom_models.py b/tests/test_custom_models.py
index 1cf47f7f..c20d63f0 100644
--- a/tests/test_custom_models.py
+++ b/tests/test_custom_models.py
@@ -101,6 +101,43 @@ def test_text_custom_model_parallel_processing():
         delete_model_cache(model.model._model_dir)
 
 
+def test_text_custom_model_output_name():
+    is_ci = os.getenv("CI")
+    custom_model_name = "custom/granite-embedding-small-english-r2"
+
+    # onnx outputs are `last_hidden_state` and `sentence_embedding`, the builtin model uses the latter
+    TextEmbedding.add_custom_model(
+        custom_model_name,
+        pooling=PoolingType.DISABLED,
+        normalization=False,
+        sources=ModelSource(hf="onnx-community/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-ONNX"),
+        dim=384,
+        additional_files=["onnx/model.onnx_data"],
+        output_name="sentence_embedding",
+    )
+
+    model = TextEmbedding(custom_model_name)
+    builtin_model = TextEmbedding("ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2")
+    docs = ["hello world", "flag embedding"]
+    expected = np.stack(list(builtin_model.embed(docs)), axis=0)
+
+    embeddings = np.stack(list(model.embed(docs)), axis=0)
+    assert np.allclose(embeddings, expected, atol=1e-5)
+
+    # workers re-register the model, so they have to receive the output name too
+    embeddings = np.stack(list(model.embed(docs, batch_size=1, parallel=2)), axis=0)
+    assert np.allclose(embeddings, expected, atol=1e-5)
+
+    CustomTextEmbedding.POSTPROCESSING_MAPPING[custom_model_name] = PostprocessingConfig(
+        pooling=PoolingType.DISABLED, normalization=False, output_name="sentence_embeddings"
+    )
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="available outputs"):
+        TextEmbedding(custom_model_name)
+
+    if is_ci:
+        delete_model_cache(model.model._model_dir)
+
+
 def test_cross_encoder_custom_model():
     is_ci = os.getenv("CI")
     custom_model_name = "Xenova/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-4-v2"