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.
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On MIEB English · Zero-shot Classification · English, VLM2Vec LoRA scores 46.3 vs 46.3 — about the same.
Released 2024-10-08. 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.
VLM2Vec LoRA is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from TIGER-Lab, released Oct 2024.
Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small (better), Siglip So400m Patch14 384 (open weights).