$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 MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages), Bge Base En v1.5 scores 59.1 vs 59.9 — about the same. It is 96% 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.
EmbeddingGemma 300M (cheaper), Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small (open weights).