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.
#22 of 200 in Embeddings. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.
On CoIR · Mean over tasks · multilingual (9 languages), Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 0826 scores 77.4 vs 77.7 — about the same.
Released 2026-08-19. 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.
Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 0826 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from ai-sage, released Aug 2026.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), F2LLM v2 14B (open weights).