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BGE Base EN v1.5

Name: BGE Base EN v1.5
Brand: BAAI
Price: 0.00675 USD
Availability: InStock

768-dimension English embeddings — half the vector of bge-large-en at the same per-million rate, so an index built on it is half the storage and half the comparison cost. Retrieval quality gives up little on short chunks, which is what the 512-token window enforces anyway.

Modalities

Text → Text

Usage

How much this model is actually called here.

Rank

#80

of 98 active models

Tokens served

49.5K

all-time

Platform share

0.0%

of all tokens

Tokens · last 14 daysSep 4 → Sep 17

Pricing

Pay per token. Cached input bills at this model’s own cached rate, listed below.

$0.00675 /1M input$0.00 /1M output

Hobby10 req/day · 2K in / 500 out

~$0.00/mo

Production1,000 req/day · 2K in / 500 out

~$0.40/mo

Scale20,000 req/day · 2K in / 500 out

~$8.10/mo

+ Estimate your workload

Requests / day1,000

Input tokens / request2,000

Output tokens / request500

Estimated monthly cost

$0.4050

$0.0135 / day on BGE Base EN v1.5

Same workload on:

BGE-M3$0.8100+100%

BGE Large EN v1.5$0.8100+100%

Estimates use list pricing. Actual bills depend on real token counts, and every response includes its exact cost.

How it compares

Against the peers people actually weigh it against.

Spec	BGE Base EN v1.5	BGE-M3	BGE Large EN v1.5
Input /1M	$0.00675	$0.0135	$0.0135
Output /1M	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Context	1K	8K	1K
Tools	No	No	No
Reasoning	No	No	No
Throughput	1500 tok/s	1318 tok/s	1381 tok/s

Quick start

Up and running in under two minutes.

1
Create an API key
Sign up and grab a key from the dashboard — $0.50 free credit on the free tier, which covers BGE Base EN v1.5. No card required.
Get API key →

Make your first request

Submit a generation job and poll until it succeeds.

curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "bge-base-en",
    "input": ["first document", "second document"]
  }'

FAQ

Common questions about this model.

What is the context window of BGE Base EN v1.5?

BGE Base EN v1.5 has a 1K-token context window — roughly 1 pages of text in a single request.

How much does the BGE Base EN v1.5 API cost?

$0.00675 per 1M input tokens and $0.00 per 1M output tokens. No subscription; you pay only for what you use.

Does BGE Base EN v1.5 support function calling?

No — BGE Base EN v1.5 does not support tool calling. For agent workloads, choose a tools-enabled model from the catalog.

How do I use BGE Base EN v1.5?

Kyma is OpenAI-compatible: point your SDK's base URL at https://kymaapi.com/v1, use your Kyma API key, and set the model to bge-base-en. Signing up is free and includes $0.50 of credit on the free tier, which covers this model — no card required.

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More models by BAAI

Model	Context	Input	Output
BGE-M3	8K	$0.0135	$0.00
BGE Large EN v1.5	1K	$0.0135	$0.00