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.
#65 of 89 in Multimodal.
On MIEB English · Image Clustering · English, CLIP ViT L 14 DataComp.XL S13B B90K scores 86.4 vs 92.4 — lower.
Released 2023-04-26. 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 L 14 DataComp.XL S13B B90K is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from laion, released Apr 2023.
EVA02 CLIP B 16 (better).