Every free embeddings api tier that clears our bar in 2026: 3 offers meet the criteria and 0 offers are demoted with a named reason. Our membership test: returns a vector for text or media so it can be compared to other vectors; the vector is the output, not a completion. We could not confirm today's terms for 3 of them, and on all 3 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
Free tier: Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Gemini Embedding 2 and Gemma 4 are free of charge. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is paid only. Google publishes no free-tier rate limits; each project's limits are shown in Google AI Studio. Google's pricing table marks free-tier use as "Used to improve our products". Since 2026-09-18 Google serves the Gemini 2.5 models only to users who have used them before, and points new projects to 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash. Paid, per million tokens (input/output): Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.75/$3.75 until 2026-12-31, then double; Gemini 3.5 Flash $1.50/$9; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite $0.30/$2.50; Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite $0.25/$1.50; Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $2/$12 (prompts up to 200K tokens). Accounts opened after 2026-03-02 cannot spend the $300 Google Cloud welcome credit on the Gemini API.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it embeddings_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://ai.google.dev/pricing, where it says: “Our first multimodal embedding model, mapping text, images, video, audio, and PDFs into a unified embedding space”. How we use this
Vector database. The Starter plan is free: up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units and 1M read units a month, 1 GB of egress a month (reads that return data stop at the cap until the next billing period), 5 indexes, 1 project and 2 users, on AWS us-east-1 only. Assistant includes 1 GB storage and 500k input, 300k output and 500k context tokens a month. Three embedding models include 5M tokens a month each; bge-reranker-v2-m3 includes 500 requests a month. Builder is $20/month flat.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it embeddings_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://pinecone.io/pricing, where it says: “Inference - Embedding llama-text-embed-v2 5M tokens/mo included”. How we use this
AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse. Every account starts with a Trial API key: calls made with it are free, limited to 1,000 API calls a month, and may not be used for production or commercial purposes. Trial rate limits: 20 requests a minute per Chat model, 2,000 Embed inputs a minute and 10 Rerank requests a minute. Trial keys can use all of Cohere's models and APIs. Production keys are pay-as-you-go. Prices per 1M tokens: Command R7B $0.0375/$0.15; Command R $0.15/$0.60. The pricing page lists Command A+ (Apache 2.0) at $0 through an API key and as a model download.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it embeddings_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cohere.com/pricing, where it says: “Embed Search and discovery model”. How we use this
Nothing on this page is demoted today — we hold no disqualifying record against any of these offers.
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | Free tier: Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Ge... read found the page different · 2026-09-22 |
watch effective 2026-06-01 |
2026-09-22 / 2026-08-18 |
| Pinecone | Free | Vector database. The Starter plan is free: up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units and 1M read units a month, 1 GB of egress ... read found the page different · 2026-09-26 |
stable | 2026-09-26 / 2026-07-31 |
| Cohere | Free | AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse. Every account starts with a Trial API key: ca... read found the page different · 2026-09-18 |
stable | 2026-09-18 / 2026-08-16 |
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 3 free embeddings api offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
3 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 2 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, and 1 a recorded narrowing. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.
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