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: Alibaba-NLP/gte-base-en-v1.5, HIT-TMG/KaLM-embedding-multilingual-mini-instruct-v1, hassan7272/urdu-finance-embeddings, BAAI/bge-small-en, avsolatorio/NoInstruct-small-Embedding-v0. 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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- Alibaba-NLP/gte-base-en-v1.5: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: Alibaba-NLP/gte-base-en-v1.5 · transformers
- 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
- hassan7272/urdu-finance-embeddings: Model from Hugging Face: hassan7272/urdu-finance-embeddings
- BAAI/bge-small-en: Model from Hugging Face for feature extraction: BAAI/bge-small-en · transformers
- avsolatorio/NoInstruct-small-Embedding-v0: Model from Hugging Face: avsolatorio/NoInstruct-small-Embedding-v0
- Ashokreddy6/CounselAssistant-RetrieverV1: Model from Hugging Face: Ashokreddy6/CounselAssistant-RetrieverV1
- ai4data/devdata-search-multilingual-e5-small-cgist-guide-e5cgist: Model from Hugging Face: ai4data/devdata-search-multilingual-e5-small-cgist-guide-e5cgist
- ohnokayden/bge-large-en-v1.5: Model from Hugging Face: ohnokayden/bge-large-en-v1.5
- antoinelouis/colbertv1-camembert-base-mmarcoFR: Model from Hugging Face: antoinelouis/colbertv1-camembert-base-mmarcoFR
- intfloat/llm-retriever-base: Model from Hugging Face: intfloat/llm-retriever-base
- Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v2.0: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v2.0 · sentence transformers
- Alibaba-NLP/gte-modernbert-base: Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: Alibaba-NLP/gte-modernbert-base · transformers
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Updated 2026-09-05 from the live catalog.