$0.002 per 1M tokens.
There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.002 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#53 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian, EmbeddingGemma 300M scores 71.5 vs 71.9 — about the same. It is 91% cheaper.
Through the Google API.
Released 2025-09-04. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (gemma licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
EmbeddingGemma 300M is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Google, released Sep 2025.
Bge M3 (better).
BetterBge M3unstatedOpen+4%+400%$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 0.3 GBiBetterMultilingual E5 LargeunstatedOpen+4%+400%$0.01Max input: 2K tokens → 1K tokens+1
BetterCohere Embed Multilingual v3.0unstated+5%——Max input: not verified
BetterSnowflake Arctic Embed L v2.0unstatedOpen+4%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 0.3 GBcOpenF2LLM v2 8Bunstated+2%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 4.5 GB