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.
#48 of 200 in Embeddings. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.
On MTEB Code v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (15 languages), Giga Embeddings Instruct 480M 0826 scores 72.9 vs 73.3 — about the same.
Released 2026-08-10. 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 480M 0826 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from ai-sage, released Aug 2026.
pplx Embed v1 0.6B (better), C2LLM 7B (open weights).