diff --git a/vector-stores/spring-ai-neo4j-store/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/Neo4jVectorStore.java b/vector-stores/spring-ai-neo4j-store/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/Neo4jVectorStore.java
index bdd848fa9..71976f587 100644
--- a/vector-stores/spring-ai-neo4j-store/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/Neo4jVectorStore.java
+++ b/vector-stores/spring-ai-neo4j-store/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/Neo4jVectorStore.java
@@ -235,9 +235,7 @@ public class Neo4jVectorStore implements VectorStore, InitializingBean {
 							SET u.id = row.id,
 								u += row.properties
 						WITH row, u
-						CALL db.create.setVectorProperty(u, $embeddingProperty, row.embedding)
-						YIELD node
-						RETURN count(node)
+						CALL db.create.setNodeVectorProperty(u, $embeddingProperty, row.embedding)
 					""".formatted(this.config.quotedLabel);
 			session.run(statement, Map.of("rows", rows, "embeddingProperty", this.config.embeddingProperty)).consume();
 		}
diff --git a/vector-stores/spring-ai-neo4j-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/Neo4jVectorStoreIT.java b/vector-stores/spring-ai-neo4j-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/Neo4jVectorStoreIT.java
index d31b28b31..40fac7c2f 100644
--- a/vector-stores/spring-ai-neo4j-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/Neo4jVectorStoreIT.java
+++ b/vector-stores/spring-ai-neo4j-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/Neo4jVectorStoreIT.java
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 @EnabledIfEnvironmentVariable(named = "OPENAI_API_KEY", matches = ".+")
 class Neo4jVectorStoreIT {
 
-	// Neo4j 5.12 has a bug wrt checking limits, so either 5.11 or anything higher than
-	// 5.12 works
+	// Needs to be Neo4j 5.13+, because Neo4j 5.13 deprecated the used embedding storing
+	// function.
 	@Container
-	static Neo4jContainer<?> neo4jContainer = new Neo4jContainer<>(DockerImageName.parse("neo4j:5.11"))
+	static Neo4jContainer<?> neo4jContainer = new Neo4jContainer<>(DockerImageName.parse("neo4j:5.14"))
 		.withRandomPassword();
 
 	List<Document> documents = List.of(