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.
#72 of 89 in Multimodal.
On MIEB lite · Compositionality · English, Siglip Base Patch16 256 Multilingual scores 30.7 vs 31 — 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 256 Multilingual is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Google, released Jan 2024.
EmbeddingGemma 2 (better), LCO Embedding Omni 7B (open weights).