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 · Zero-shot Classification · English, Bge Visualized Base scores 42.1 vs 42.4 — 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), Ebind Full (open weights).
BetterEmbeddingGemma 2unstatedOpen+53%—$0.02eOpenEbind Fullunstated+84%——Max input: 8K tokens → 0K tokens+1
BetterJina Embeddings v5 Omni SmallunstatedOpen+25%—$0.05Memory (4-bit): 0.5 GB → 1 GB