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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

Input

$0.00675 /1M

Output

$0.00 /1M

Cached input

$0.00068 /1M90% off

Context

Speed

fast

Pricing

Pay per token. Cached input is billed at 10% of the input rate.

$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

Cache hit rate30%

Estimated monthly cost

$0.2956

$0.0099 / day on BGE Base EN v1.5

Same workload on:

BGE-M3$0.8100+174%

BGE Large EN v1.5$0.8100+174%

Estimates use list pricing with cached input billed at the 90%-discount rate. Actual bills depend on real token counts — 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	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reasoning	No	No	No
Speed	fast	fast	fast

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, no card required.
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Make your first request

Drop in your key and send a chat completion — fully OpenAI-compatible.

curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "bge-base-en",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Explain prompt caching in one paragraph."}
    ]
  }'

Stream responses

Add "stream": true to receive tokens as they arrive.

curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "bge-base-en",
    "stream": true,
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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, with cached input at $0.00068/1M — a 90% discount on repeated prompt prefixes. No subscription; you pay only for what you use.

Does BGE Base EN v1.5 support function calling?

Yes — BGE Base EN v1.5 supports tool/function calling and structured outputs (JSON mode), so it works with agent frameworks out of the box.

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 — 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