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.
#80 of 89 in Multimodal.
On MIEB English · Zero-shot Classification · English, CLIP ViT B 32 Laion2B S34B B79K scores 59 vs 61.2 — lower.
Released 2022-09-15. 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 32 Laion2B S34B B79K is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from laion, released Sep 2022.
Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small (better), Siglip So400m Patch14 384 (open weights).