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.
#39 of 206 in Embeddings.
On MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages), BidirLM 1B Embedding scores 61.6 vs 62 — about the same.
Released 2026-04-07. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
BidirLM 1B Embedding is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from BidirLM, released Apr 2026.
pplx Embed v1 0.6B (better), KaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 (open weights).