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 · Zero-shot Classification · English, Clip Vit Large Patch14 scores 63.8 vs 64.6 — about the same.
Released 2021-02-26. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open.
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Clip Vit Large Patch14 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from OpenAI, released Feb 2021.
Ebind Full (better).