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.
#45 of 89 in Multimodal.
On MTEB English v2 · Pair Classification · English, LCO Embedding Omni 7B scores 84.3 vs 84.4 — about the same.
Released 2025-10-15. 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.
LCO Embedding Omni 7B is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from LCO-Embedding, released Oct 2025.
EmbeddingGemma 2 (better).