Free OpenAI-Compatible Embeddings API
A catalog-backed starting list of open embedding models for self-hosted or provider-backed OpenAI-compatible embeddings; endpoint pricing and availability remain provider-specific. Canonical URL: https://huggingbay.xyz/answers/free-openai-compatible-embeddings-api.
To get a free OpenAI-compatible embeddings API, self-host an open embedding model behind an OpenAI-compatible server rather than assuming a hosted endpoint is free. These live Hugging Bay embedding rows are the model shortlist; the canonical artifact pages state current metadata, while endpoint quotas, pricing, and uptime remain provider-specific. Representative rows: nvidia/Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16, Alibaba-NLP/gte-base-en-v1.5, nvidia/NV-Embed-v2, unsloth/embeddinggemma-300m-GGUF, facebook/drama-large. Use each canonical citation URL plus metadata/card endpoints for current license, trust, hosting, and download state. Canonical URL: https://huggingbay.xyz/answers/free-openai-compatible-embeddings-api.
Question: What is the best free OpenAI-compatible embeddings API?
A catalog-backed starting list of open embedding models for self-hosted or provider-backed OpenAI-compatible embeddings; endpoint pricing and availability remain provider-specific.
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- nvidia/Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: nvidia/Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 · sentence transformers
- Alibaba-NLP/gte-base-en-v1.5: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: Alibaba-NLP/gte-base-en-v1.5 · transformers
- nvidia/NV-Embed-v2: Model from Hugging Face for feature extraction: nvidia/NV-Embed-v2 · transformers
- unsloth/embeddinggemma-300m-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: unsloth/embeddinggemma-300m-GGUF · sentence transformers
- facebook/drama-large: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: facebook/drama-large · transformers
- jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-retrieval-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-retrieval-GGUF · llama.cpp
- mlx-community/embeddinggemma-300m-4bit: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: mlx-community/embeddinggemma-300m-4bit · sentence transformers
- jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-retrieval-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-retrieval-GGUF · llama.cpp
- nomic-ai/nomic-embed-code-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: nomic-ai/nomic-embed-code-GGUF · unknown
- Abiray/harrier-oss-v1-27b-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for feature extraction: Abiray/harrier-oss-v1-27b-GGUF · gguf
- HIT-TMG/KaLM-embedding-multilingual-mini-instruct-v1: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: HIT-TMG/KaLM-embedding-multilingual-mini-instruct-v1 · sentence transformers
- jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching-GGUF · llama.cpp
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Updated 2026-09-20 from the live catalog.