$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 Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean, Bge Multilingual Gemma2 scores 36.8 vs 40.1 — lower.
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.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (cheaper), PwC Embedding Expr (open weights).