BGE M3
by BAAI (Beijing Academy of AI)Embedding
Flagship model for demanding analysis, coding, and production agent workflows
- Context
- 8.2K tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Released
- 2024-01-30
- Weights
- Open
- Licence
- mit
baai/bge-m3 · also seen as baai/bge-m3-20251117
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2024-01-30
- Weights
- Opennot gated
- License
- mit
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 8,194 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 8,192
- Providers
- 6 + 1 gateway, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.01–$0.02 in per 1M tokens · 5 of 6 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-04-30
- Knowledge cutoff
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · BAAI/bge-m3
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured outputunknown
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.01 in / — out per 1M tokens at Deep Infra on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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