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 · Image Classification · English, Dinov2 Base scores 67.6 vs 68.3 — about the same.
Released 2023-07-18. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Dinov2 Base is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Meta, released Jul 2023.
EmbeddingGemma 2 (better), EVA02 CLIP B 16 (open weights).