$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.
#163 of 220 in Embeddings.
On LongEmbed · Retrieval · English, Bge M3 scores 59.5 vs 60.4 — about the same.
Through the BAAI API.
Released 2024-06-28. 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 M3 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from BAAI, released Jun 2024.
Voyage 3 Lite (better), Uibk Embedding v1 (open weights).