$0.02 per 1M tokens.
There is no free API; it costs $0.02 per 1M tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#70 of 200 in Embeddings.
On ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English, Bge Small En v1.5 scores 0.1 vs 0.1 — about the same. It is 300% more expensive.
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 Small En v1.5 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from BAAI, released Sep 2023.
E5 Large v2 (cheaper), F2LLM v2 14B (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).