There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#87 of 89 in Multimodal.
On MIEB Img · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages), Bge Visualized Base scores 29.1 vs 30.4 — lower.
Released 2024-06-06. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open.
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Bge Visualized Base is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from BAAI, released Jun 2024.
Jina Clip v1 (better), LCO Embedding Omni 7B (open weights).