# GTE Base

> 768-dimension general text embeddings from Alibaba's Tongyi lab, trained on a broader mixture than BGE and often a point or two ahead of it on out-of-domain retrieval. Same size and same price as bge-base-en, so the choice is which one your corpus likes.

Human version: https://kymaapi.com/models/gte-base
Live JSON: `GET https://kymaapi.com/v1/models` (no auth required)

## Facts

- **Model ID**: `gte-base` — pass this as `model` in the request body
- **Creator**: Alibaba
- **Released**: 2023-07-27
- **Context window**: 1K tokens
- **Price**: $0.00675 in / $0.00 out per 1M, cached input 10%
- **Capabilities**: tools, caching

## Call it

```bash
curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KYMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "gte-base", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'
```

## See also

- All models: https://kymaapi.com/models.md
- Pricing: https://kymaapi.com/pricing.md
- Other models by Alibaba: https://kymaapi.com/models?q=Alibaba