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.
#62 of 89 in Multimodal.
On MIEB Img · Image Classification · English, CLIP ViT BigG 14 Laion2B 39B B160k scores 83.6 vs 83.7 — about the same.
Released 2023-01-23. 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 BigG 14 Laion2B 39B B160k is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from laion, released Jan 2023.
EVA02 CLIP B 16 (better).