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 English · Zero-shot Classification · English, CLIP ViT H 14 Laion2B S32B B79K scores 67.5 vs 67.7 — 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 H 14 Laion2B S32B B79K is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from laion, released Sep 2022.
Siglip So400m Patch14 384 (better).
BetterSiglip So400m Patch14 384Open+5%——QBetterEVA02 CLIP B 16unstatedOpen+5%——Memory (4-bit): 0.6 GB → 3 GBlOpenCLIP ViT BigG 14 Laion2B 39B B160k+3%——Memory (4-bit): 0.6 GB → 1.5 GBlOpenCLIP ViT L 14 DataComp.XL S13B B90Ksame——