$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 RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English, Bge Large En v1.5 scores 58.2 vs 58.6 — about the same. It is 0% 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.
All Mpnet Base v2 (cheaper), Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Nemotron 3 Embed 8B BF16 (open weights).