$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 Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese, Bge Multilingual Gemma2 scores 85.6 vs 85.8 — 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.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (cheaper), Yuan Embedding 2.0 Zh (better).