diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 206915a0..dd4eaeeb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -98,6 +98,15 @@ embeddings = list(model.embed(documents))
 # ]
 ```
 
+For MiniCOIL, use `max_sequence_length` to cap the tokens sent to the model when
+embedding long texts. The limit includes special tokens and must leave room for at least one
+text token. Values above the model's own tokenizer limit are capped at that limit.
+
+```python
+model = SparseTextEmbedding(model_name="Qdrant/minicoil-v1", max_sequence_length=512)
+embeddings = list(model.embed(documents))
+```
+
 <!--
 * BM42 - ([link](ToDo))
 
diff --git a/fastembed/sparse/minicoil.py b/fastembed/sparse/minicoil.py
index 0aabad7d..73615c76 100644
--- a/fastembed/sparse/minicoil.py
+++ b/fastembed/sparse/minicoil.py
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ def __init__(
         lazy_load: bool = False,
         device_id: int | None = None,
         specific_model_path: str | None = None,
+        max_sequence_length: int | None = None,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ):
         """
@@ -108,12 +109,23 @@ def __init__(
                 Should be set to True when using multiple-gpu and parallel encoding. Defaults to False.
             device_id (Optional[int], optional): The device id to use for loading the model in the worker process.
             specific_model_path (Optional[str], optional): The specific path to the onnx model dir if it should be imported from somewhere else
+            max_sequence_length (Optional[int], optional): Maximum number of input tokens, including
+                special tokens. Defaults to the model's tokenizer limit. Values above the model's limit
+                are capped at that limit. Applies to document and query embeddings, including workers.
 
         Raises:
             ValueError: If the model_name is not in the format <org>/<model> e.g. BAAI/bge-base-en.
         """
 
+        if max_sequence_length is not None and (
+            isinstance(max_sequence_length, bool)
+            or not isinstance(max_sequence_length, int)
+            or max_sequence_length <= 0
+        ):
+            raise ValueError("max_sequence_length must be a positive integer or None")
+
         super().__init__(model_name, cache_dir, threads, **kwargs)
+        self.max_sequence_length = max_sequence_length
         self.providers = providers
         self.lazy_load = lazy_load
         self.device_ids = device_ids
@@ -150,6 +162,7 @@ def __init__(
             self.load_onnx_model()
 
     def load_onnx_model(self) -> None:
+        self._ensure_tokenizer()
         self._load_onnx_model(
             model_dir=self._model_dir,
             model_file=self.model_description.model_file,
@@ -164,10 +177,28 @@ def load_onnx_model(self) -> None:
     def _load_tokenizer(self, model_dir: Path) -> None:
         super()._load_tokenizer(model_dir=model_dir)
         assert self.tokenizer is not None
+        if self.max_sequence_length is not None:
+            assert self.tokenizer.truncation is not None
+            minimum_length = self.tokenizer.num_special_tokens_to_add(is_pair=False) + 1
+            if self.max_sequence_length < minimum_length:
+                self.tokenizer = None
+                self.special_token_to_id = {}
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"max_sequence_length must be at least {minimum_length} to include a text token"
+                )
+            model_max_length = self.tokenizer.truncation["max_length"]
+            self.tokenizer.enable_truncation(
+                max_length=min(self.max_sequence_length, model_max_length)
+            )
         self.invert_vocab = {idx: token for token, idx in self.tokenizer.get_vocab().items()}
         self.special_tokens = set(self.special_token_to_id.keys())
         self.special_tokens_ids = set(self.special_token_to_id.values())
 
+    def _get_worker_init_kwargs(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        if self.max_sequence_length is None:
+            return {}
+        return {"max_sequence_length": self.max_sequence_length}
+
     def _load_post_processing_state(self) -> None:
         """Load the vocab resolver, the encoder and the sparse vector converter.
 
diff --git a/tests/test_minicoil_sequence_length.py b/tests/test_minicoil_sequence_length.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f67563fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_minicoil_sequence_length.py
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+from tokenizers import Tokenizer, models, pre_tokenizers, processors
+
+from fastembed.sparse.minicoil import MiniCOIL
+from fastembed.sparse.sparse_text_embedding import SparseTextEmbedding
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def local_minicoil(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    """Use a real tokenizer but avoid downloading model weights for sequence-length tests."""
+
+    def load_tokenizer(model_dir):
+        vocab = {"[UNK]": 0, "[PAD]": 1}
+        vocab.update({f"word{i}": i + 2 for i in range(12)})
+        tokenizer = Tokenizer(models.WordLevel(vocab, unk_token="[UNK]"))
+        tokenizer.pre_tokenizer = pre_tokenizers.Whitespace()
+        tokenizer.enable_truncation(max_length=8)
+        tokenizer.enable_padding(pad_id=1, pad_token="[PAD]")
+        return tokenizer, {}
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr("fastembed.text.onnx_text_model.load_tokenizer", load_tokenizer)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(MiniCOIL, "download_model", lambda *args, **kwargs: tmp_path)
+
+    def make_model(max_sequence_length=None):
+        kwargs = (
+            {} if max_sequence_length is None else {"max_sequence_length": max_sequence_length}
+        )
+        return SparseTextEmbedding("Qdrant/minicoil-v1", lazy_load=True, **kwargs).model
+
+    return make_model
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("max_sequence_length", "expected_length"),
+    [(None, 8), (4, 4), (20, 8)],
+)
+def test_minicoil_limit_reaches_onnx_input(
+    local_minicoil, monkeypatch, max_sequence_length, expected_length
+) -> None:
+    model = local_minicoil(max_sequence_length)
+    model._ensure_tokenizer()
+    model.model = SimpleNamespace(get_inputs=lambda: [SimpleNamespace(name="input_ids")])
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        model,
+        "_run_model",
+        lambda onnx_input, onnx_output_names=None: np.zeros(
+            (*onnx_input["input_ids"].shape, 1), dtype=np.float32
+        ),
+    )
+
+    text = " ".join(f"word{i}" for i in range(12))
+    output = model.onnx_embed([text])
+
+    assert output.input_ids.shape == (1, expected_length)
+    assert model.token_count(text) == expected_length
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("invalid_length", [0, -1, True, 2.5])
+def test_minicoil_rejects_invalid_sequence_limit(local_minicoil, invalid_length) -> None:
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="max_sequence_length must be a positive integer"):
+        local_minicoil(invalid_length)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("max_sequence_length", [1, 2])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("operation", ["token_count", "embed", "query_embed"])
+def test_minicoil_limit_must_leave_room_for_text_and_special_tokens(
+    local_minicoil, monkeypatch, max_sequence_length, operation
+) -> None:
+    tokenizer = Tokenizer(
+        models.WordLevel({"[UNK]": 0, "[CLS]": 1, "[SEP]": 2, "word": 3}, unk_token="[UNK]")
+    )
+    tokenizer.pre_tokenizer = pre_tokenizers.Whitespace()
+    tokenizer.post_processor = processors.TemplateProcessing(
+        single="[CLS] $A [SEP]", special_tokens=[("[CLS]", 1), ("[SEP]", 2)]
+    )
+    tokenizer.enable_truncation(max_length=8)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "fastembed.text.onnx_text_model.load_tokenizer",
+        lambda model_dir: (tokenizer, {"[CLS]": 1, "[SEP]": 2}),
+    )
+    model = local_minicoil(max_sequence_length)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        model,
+        "_load_onnx_model",
+        lambda **kwargs: pytest.fail("invalid sequence limit must fail before loading ONNX"),
+    )
+
+    for _ in range(2):
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="max_sequence_length must be at least 3"):
+            result = getattr(model, operation)("word word")
+            if operation != "token_count":
+                list(result)
+
+
+def test_minicoil_parallel_workers_receive_sequence_limit(local_minicoil, monkeypatch) -> None:
+    model = local_minicoil(4)
+    captured = {}
+
+    class RecordingPool:
+        def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+            pass
+
+        def ordered_map(self, batches, **kwargs):
+            captured.update(kwargs)
+            return iter(())
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr("fastembed.text.onnx_text_model.ParallelWorkerPool", RecordingPool)
+
+    assert list(model.embed(["word0", "word1"], batch_size=1, parallel=2)) == []
+    assert captured["max_sequence_length"] == 4