Mixedbread
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High-performance embeddings + reranking. Free tier.
Embeddingsest. 2023 · Berlin, Germany
87
/ 100 APIVault Score
// At a glance
Free Tier
Free dev tier · no card
Category
Embeddings
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
1m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
mxbai-embed-large-v1mxbai-rerank-large-v1
Monthly Requests
Free developer tier with rate limits
No credit card needed
No phone verification
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">import requests
response = requests.post(
300">"https://api.mixedbread.ai/v1/embeddings",
headers={300">"Authorization": 300">"Bearer YOUR_MXB_KEY"},
json={300">"model": 300">"mixedbread-ai/mxbai-embed-large-v1", 300">"input": [300">"hello world"]},
)
print(response.json()[300">"data"][0][300">"embedding"][:5])// Overview
Mixedbread's mxbai-embed-large-v1 is among the best open-source embedding models. Their API provides embeddings and reranking with a free tier for development.
// Pros
- Top embedding benchmark performance
- Reranker included
- OpenAI-compatible embeddings endpoint
// Cons
- Embedding-only
- Free tier rate limited
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 1m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)85/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)82/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)70/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
RAGSemantic searchReranking pipelines