The bge-base-en-v1.5 embedding model converts English sentences and paragraphs into 768-dimensional dense vectors, delivering efficient, high-quality semantic embeddings optimized for retrieval, semantic search, and document-matching workflows. This version (v1.5) features improved similarity-score distribution and stronger retrieval performance out of the box.
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Price
$0.005/M tokens
Context
512
Released
Nov 18, 2025
The bge-base-en-v1.5 embedding model converts English sentences and paragraphs into 768-dimensional dense vectors, delivering efficient, high-quality semantic embeddings optimized for retrieval, semantic search, and document-matching workflows. This version (v1.5) features improved similarity-score distribution and stronger retrieval performance out of the box.
bge-base-en-v1.5 costs $0.005/M tokens.
bge-base-en-v1.5 accepts up to 512 tokens per input. Longer text has to be split into multiple inputs.
bge-base-en-v1.5 accepts text as input and returns embedding vectors.
bge-large-en-v1.5 and bge-m3 are other embedding models from BAAI.
bge-base-en-v1.5 was released on November 18, 2025.
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