BAAI-Bge-Base-1.5

BAAI-Bge-Base-1.5 is a embedding model from BAAI with a 1K-token context window. Provider list price is $0.008 per M tokens; on Allocate you pay $0.0086 with the 7% transaction fee. The weights are open under MIT, so you can fine-tune it and own the result.

Pricing

Token usage bills at the provider list price plus the 7% transaction fee. Prices checked 2026-07-08.

Price against its peers

Provider list prices per M tokens, BAAI-Bge-Base-1.5 against its nearest embedding peers by price.

What a real workload costs

Embedding 100M tokens, roughly 75M words of documents, costs 100 × $0.008 = $0.80 at list, or $0.86 billed on Allocate with the 7% transaction fee included.

BAAI-Bge-Base-1.5 is an open-weights model under the MIT license. Fine-tune it on your own data and the weights stay inside your boundary; they belong to you.

Example usage

Point a route at baai/bge-base-en-v1.5 and the endpoint never changes; swap the model behind it whenever you want.

curl https://api.allocate.network/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ALLOCATE_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "baai/bge-base-en-v1.5",
    "messages": [{"role": "user",
      "content": "Summarise the attached contract."}]
  }'

Common questions