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.
#64 of 89 in Multimodal.
On MIEB English · Visual semantic similarity (English) · multilingual (13 languages), Siglip Large Patch16 256 scores 67.4 vs 67.7 — 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 Large Patch16 256 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Google, released Jan 2024.
Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano (better), Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small (open weights).