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 · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages), EVA02 CLIP B 16 scores 27.8 vs 28 — 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.
EVA02 CLIP B 16 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from QuanSun, released Apr 2023.
Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano (better), DNA VL STEER 2B (open weights).