- Free allowance
- Starter plan: $5 in one-time credits, no card required; 3 workspace users, 3 stores, 100 queries per minute and 6,000 upload requests per minute.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota$5 of one-time credit; at the listed prices $5 covers about 1,250 plain semantic queries or about 666 with reranking, before any indexing cost
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | Starter plan: $5 in one-time credits, no card required; 3 workspace users, 3 stores, 100 queries per minute and 6,000 upload requests per minute. Embeddings and reranking are billed inside Store indexing and search, not as standalone calls: standalone direct embedding and reranking APIs are no longer documented unit credits; metered on unstated; the credit is USD and is spent on content tokens indexed, storage, and queries; semantic search is $4 per 1K queries and $7.50 per 1K with reranking |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) $5 of one-time credit; at the listed prices $5 covers about 1,250 plain semantic queries or about 666 with reranking, before any indexing cost source
- request-rate Starter: 100 queries per minute and 6,000 ingestion requests per minute; operation-class limits 1,200 reads, 600 lists, 360 writes per minute source
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| Binding | volume-quota the $5 one-time credit is the binding limit; once spent the plan must move to Scale at $20 a month |
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| Identity | email the pricing page states 'No card required' for Starter; unverified: the sign-up form fields, because the app page answered with a login wall to the page reader |
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| Egress | not published |
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| Interface | rest |
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| Tooling | Python and TypeScript SDKs and a REST endpoint at api.mixedbread.com/v1/stores/search; upload files to a store, then search with search_options.rerank |
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| Composes with | a caller that needs raw vectors or a bare rerank call cannot get them here; Jina AI, Pinecone Inference and Cohere trial keys serve that shape |
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| Reliability | the earlier standalone embedding and reranking APIs were withdrawn from the documentation; the open-weight models remain on Hugging Face |
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| Notes | derived: $5 / ($7.50 per 1,000 queries) = about 666 queries with reranking; $5 / ($4 per 1,000 queries) = 1,250 queries without |
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| Evidence note | documented the plan, credit, no-card statement, limits, prices and the withdrawal of the direct APIs are quoted from vendor pages; the sign-up form was not readable. |
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