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SIE vs hosted embedding APIs: ~97% of the quality at ~1/12th the cost

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Benchmarks of self-hosted embedding on SIE against Voyage, OpenAI, and Cohere across quality, latency, throughput, and cost, finding self-hosting nearly matches the hosted frontier while embedding a billion tokens for around ten dollars.

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