$0.005 per 1M tokens.
There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.005 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#63 of 200 in Embeddings.
On ChemTEB · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages), Bge Base En v1.5 scores 51.7 vs 52.1 — about the same. It is 95% cheaper.
Through the BAAI API.
Released 2023-09-11. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Bge Base En v1.5 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from BAAI, released Sep 2023.
Text Embedding 3 Large (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).
BetterText Embedding 3 Largeunstated+10%+2,500%$0.13Languages: not verifiedcOpenF2LLM v2 8Bunstated+15%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 4.5 GBcBetterF2LLM v2 14BunstatedOpen+14%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 8.4 GBcBetterF2LLM v2 4BunstatedOpen+10%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 2.4 GBIBetterBOOM 4B v1unstatedOpen+7%——Languages: not verified+1