diff --git a/doc/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md b/doc/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md
index d84a0645a234..cf9f53baba96 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@
 
 - `mold` is now wrapped by default.
 
+- `neovim` now disables by default the `python3` and `ruby` providers, unused by most users and reducing closure size from 365MiB to 240MiB.
 
 ### Deprecations {#sec-nixpkgs-release-26.05-lib-deprecations}
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/utils.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/utils.nix
index 47d55e3042b6..23968bf21d0e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/utils.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/utils.nix
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ let
       # the function you would have passed to python.withPackages
       extraPythonPackages ? (_: [ ]),
       # the function you would have passed to python.withPackages
-      withPython3 ? true,
+      withPython3 ? false,
       extraPython3Packages ? (_: [ ]),
       # the function you would have passed to lua.withPackages
       extraLuaPackages ? (_: [ ]),
@@ -243,9 +243,9 @@ let
   */
   generateProviderRc =
     {
-      withPython3 ? true,
+      withPython3 ? false,
       withNodeJs ? false,
-      withRuby ? true,
+      withRuby ? false,
       # Perl is problematic https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/132368
       withPerl ? false,
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/wrapper.nix
index e8f04ad30fc3..5234ad484c41 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/wrapper.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/wrapper.nix
@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ let
       # should contain all args but the binary. Can be either a string or list
       wrapperArgs ? [ ],
       withPython2 ? false,
-      withPython3 ? true,
+      withPython3 ? false,
       # the function you would have passed to python3.withPackages
       extraPython3Packages ? (_: [ ]),
 
       waylandSupport ? lib.meta.availableOn stdenv.hostPlatform wayland,
       withNodeJs ? false,
       withPerl ? false,
-      withRuby ? true,
+      withRuby ? false,
 
       # wether to create symlinks in $out/bin/vi(m) -> $out/bin/nvim
       vimAlias ? false,