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 · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages), CLIP ViT B 16 DataComp.XL S13B B90K scores 28.5 vs 29.8 — lower.
Released 2023-04-26. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
CLIP ViT B 16 DataComp.XL S13B B90K is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from laion, released Apr 2023.
EmbeddingGemma 2 (better), LCO Embedding Omni 7B (open weights).