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.
#78 of 89 in Multimodal.
On MIEB lite · Document Understanding · English, Blip Itm Base Coco scores 15.1 vs 15.2 — about the same.
Released 2023-08-01. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (bsd-3-clause licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Blip Itm Base Coco is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Salesforce, released Aug 2023.
Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano (better), Argus Colqwen3.5 9B v0 (open weights).
BetterJina Embeddings v5 Omni NanounstatedOpen×4.9—$0.02Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.6 GBDOpenArgus Colqwen3.5 9B v0unstated×5.9——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 5.3 GB
BetterEmbeddingGemma 2unstatedOpen×4.4—$0.02Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.2 GB
Nemotron Colembed VL 8B v2Open×5.9——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 5.2 GBDArgus Colqwen3.5 4B v0unstatedOpen×5.9——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 2.8 GBvVultronRetrieverPrime Qwen3.5 8BOpen×5.9——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 5 GBvVultronRetrieverCore Qwen3.5 4.5BOpen×5.9——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 2.7 GB