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 multilingual · Mean over task types · multilingual (41 languages), CLIP ViT L 14 DataComp.XL S13B B90K scores 53.4 vs 53.5 — about the same.
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.
Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small (better), DNA VL STEER 2B (open weights).