$0.11 per 1M tokens.
There is no free API; it costs $0.11 per 1M tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#60 of 238 in Embeddings.
On MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German, Bge Multilingual Gemma2 scores 26.5 vs 26.9 — about the same.
Released 2024-07-25. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (https://ai.google.dev/gemma/terms licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Bge Multilingual Gemma2 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from BAAI, released Jul 2024.
Nemotron 3 Embed 1B BF16 (cheaper), Multilingual E5 Large (better).