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 lite · Compositionality · English, Bge Visualized Base scores 23.3 vs 23.7 — about the same.
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.
EmbeddingGemma 2 (better), LCO Embedding Omni 7B (open weights).
BetterEmbeddingGemma 2unstatedOpen+66%—$0.02LOpenLCO Embedding Omni 7Bunstated×2.1——Memory (4-bit): 0.5 GB → 5.4 GB
BetterJina Embeddings v5 Omni NanounstatedOpen+27%—$0.02Memory (4-bit): 0.5 GB → 0.6 GB