Mixedbread (mxbai)
Strengthen AI agent performance through efficient multi-format data retrieval
- Also known as
- mixedbread-mxbai
Available in: US · Popular in: US
What is Mixedbread (mxbai)?
A search and retrieval platform that indexes and queries text, images, PDFs, video, and audio across over 100 languages with minimal latency, requiring no infrastructure management or manual embedding configuration.
Mixedbread (mxbai) pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $20/month plus per-token API usage. Free tier available with $5 credits.
Starter
FreeFree tier with included credits and basic limits
- stores
- 10
- requests_per_minute
- 100
- $5 one-time credits
- 3 workspace users
- 10 stores
- 100 requests/minute
- Community Slack support
Scale
Monthly subscription with higher capacity and priority support
- stores
- 10,000
- workspace_users
- Unlimited
- queries_per_minute
- 1,200
- ingestion_per_minute
- 360
- $20/month in included credits
- Unlimited workspace users
- 10,000 stores
- 1,200 queries/min, 360 ingestion/min
- Automatic backups
- Priority Slack support (same-day SLA)
Enterprise
Contact salesCustom plan with volume pricing and dedicated support
- sla
- Custom
- stores
- Unlimited
- rate_limits
- Custom
- Volume-based discounts
- Unlimited stores
- Custom rate limits & SLA
- Automatic backups with point-in-time recovery
- Dedicated support team
Add-ons
- Startup Credits Program
What Mixedbread (mxbai) does
The capabilities that matter for embeddings apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Architecture model
- Hybrid
- Matryoshka representation learning for dimension truncation
- -
- Multilingual support across 100 plus languages
- ✓
- Binary and scalar quantization for memory reduction
- -
- Cross encoder reranker API offered
- ✓
- Late interaction architecture colbert v2
- -
- Massive context window greater than 8k tokens
- -
- Multi modal image and text joint embeddings
- ✓
- Task specific prefixes query vs document instructions
- -
- Zero data retention training opt out enterprise
- -
- SOC2 type ii
- ✓
- Mit or apache permissive oss license
- -
- Pricing model
- Per million tokens API
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Mixedbread (mxbai) alternatives
Other embeddings apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Cohere EmbedTransform text and images into searchable vector representations for precise document matching and semantic discoverylow · 45%
- BAAI FlagEmbeddinglow · 27%
- Amazon Bedrock Titan Embeddingslow · 21%
- sentence-transformerslow · 32%
- Jina EmbeddingsEmbeddings API for multimodal, multilingual content that powers search, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI applicationslow · 36%
- FastEmbedlow · 31%
Compare Mixedbread (mxbai)
Side by side against other embeddings apis, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Mixedbread (mxbai), not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.08 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 65 | 0.07 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.05 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 50 | 0.05 | 2.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Soc2 type ii: Yes · Pricing model: per_million_tokens_api · Architecture model: hybrid · Cross encoder reranker api offered: Yes · Multi modal image and text joint embeddings: Yes · Multilingual support across 100 plus languages: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-25 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: regional · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-25 · 75% |