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.
#54 of 56 in Multimodal.
On MIEB Img · Any-to-any Retrieval · English, Dinov2 Giant scores 40.8 vs 41.2 — 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 Giant is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Meta, released Jul 2023.
EVA02 CLIP B 16 (better).