diff --git a/backend/danswer/background/celery/tasks/indexing/tasks.py b/backend/danswer/background/celery/tasks/indexing/tasks.py
index 32b43a9d8e0..d275ffd0633 100644
--- a/backend/danswer/background/celery/tasks/indexing/tasks.py
+++ b/backend/danswer/background/celery/tasks/indexing/tasks.py
@@ -110,12 +110,13 @@ def check_for_indexing(self: Task, *, tenant_id: str | None) -> int | None:
             # So that the first time users aren't surprised by really slow speed of first
             # batch of documents indexed
             if current_search_settings.provider_type is None and not MULTI_TENANT:
-                embedding_model = EmbeddingModel.from_db_model(
-                    search_settings=current_search_settings,
-                    server_host=INDEXING_MODEL_SERVER_HOST,
-                    server_port=INDEXING_MODEL_SERVER_PORT,
-                )
                 if old_search_settings:
+                    embedding_model = EmbeddingModel.from_db_model(
+                        search_settings=current_search_settings,
+                        server_host=INDEXING_MODEL_SERVER_HOST,
+                        server_port=INDEXING_MODEL_SERVER_PORT,
+                    )
+
                     # only warm up if search settings were changed
                     warm_up_bi_encoder(
                         embedding_model=embedding_model,