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 Img · Any-to-any Retrieval · English, CLIP ViT B 32 Laion2B S34B B79K scores 33.9 vs 34.2 — about the same.
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), EVA02 CLIP B 16 (open weights).