$0.01 per 1M tokens.
There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.01 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#57 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages), Bge Large En v1.5 scores 39.9 vs 40 — about the same. It is 100% more expensive.
Through the BAAI API.
Released 2023-09-12. 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 Large En v1.5 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from BAAI, released Sep 2023.
E5 Base v2 (cheaper), Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).