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.
#26 of 200 in Embeddings. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.
On MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages), Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 0826 scores 60.8 vs 61 — 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 3B 0826 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from ai-sage, released Aug 2026.
pplx Embed v1 0.6B (better), KaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 (open weights).