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.
#74 of 89 in Multimodal.
On MIEB Img · Image Classification · English, Siglip Base Patch16 224 scores 79.3 vs 79.7 — about the same.
Released 2024-01-08. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Siglip Base Patch16 224 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Google, released Jan 2024.
EVA02 CLIP B 16 (better).