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 lite · Vision Centric QA · English, CLIP ViT B 32 Laion2B S34B B79K scores 42.9 vs 43 — 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.
EmbeddingGemma 2 (better), DNA VL STEER 2B (open weights).
BetterEmbeddingGemma 2unstatedOpen+22%—$0.02Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.2 GBdOpenDNA VL STEER 2B+82%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 1.3 GB
BetterJina Embeddings v5 Omni NanounstatedOpen+17%—$0.02Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.6 GB