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.
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On MIEB multilingual · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages), Bge Visualized Base scores 12.3 vs 13 — 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.
Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano (better), DNA VL STEER 2B (open weights).
BetterJina Embeddings v5 Omni NanounstatedOpen×3.6—$0.02Memory (4-bit): 0.5 GB → 0.6 GBdOpenDNA VL STEER 2B×5.8——Memory (4-bit): 0.5 GB → 1.3 GB
Siglip Base Patch16 256 MultilingualOpen×4.8——Max input: 8K tokens → 0K tokens