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          "The terms grant ZeroEntropy a licence to process and store submitted documents to provide the service and for internal improvement purposes.",
          "The proxy refused our fetch of security.txt, the docs llms.txt and the GitHub SDK page with a rate limit, so those are unchecked. The SDK's public repository was cloned instead.",
          "The embed rate-limit figures come from the SDK's docstrings, the rerank figures from the API reference."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeroentropy.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zeroentropy.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick OpenAI embeddings for reliability (+65), schema \u0026 documentation (+58), agent ergonomics (+70), security \u0026 auth (+70), payments \u0026 pricing (+30), maintenance \u0026 community (+55), transparency \u0026 trust (+34).\n\nPick ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | OpenAI embeddings | ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 0 | OpenAI embeddings +65 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 89 | 31 | OpenAI embeddings +58 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 20 | OpenAI embeddings +70 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 95 | 25 | OpenAI embeddings +70 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 0 | OpenAI embeddings +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 5 | OpenAI embeddings +55 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 88 | 54 | OpenAI embeddings +34 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **73.4 · BB** | **13.8 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | OpenAI embeddings | ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | OpenAI | ZeroEntropy |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings` | `https://api.zeroentropy.dev/v1/models/rerank` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDK) | Apache-2.0 (SDKs and model weights) |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2024-01-25 | 2026-03-02 |\n| Popularity | 31k stars | 221k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4.5/5 (2) | 1/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**OpenAI embeddings.** text-embedding-3-small at $0.02 per million tokens, $0.01 through the Batch API. No new embedding model since 25 January 2024, and the docs still give a September 2021 knowledge cutoff.\n\n**ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed.** All four models now open weights under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. The hosted API was discontinued after 4 September 2026 and signups closed on 24 July 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### OpenAI embeddings\n\n1. Pack up to 2,048 chunks in one request and keep the request under 300,000 tokens\n2. Count tokens before sending. An input over 8,192 tokens is rejected, not truncated\n3. Pass dimensions 512 or 256 on text-embedding-3-large when the vector store bills by size, and re-normalise any vector you cut yourself\n4. Split a Batch API index job into batches of under 50,000 inputs. It's half price with a 24-hour window\n5. Read Retry-After on a 429 and tell quota errors (add credits) apart from rate limits (wait)\n\n### ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed\n\n1. Don't call api.zeroentropy.dev. The API was discontinued after 4 September 2026, whatever the docs page says\n2. Self-host zerank-2 or zembed-1 from Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 if you want the same model\n3. Pick a hosted reranker elsewhere if you can't self-host. ZeroEntropy's own guide names Cohere and Voyage\n4. Re-embed the corpus if you move off zembed-1. Vectors from another model aren't compatible\n\n## Other comparisons with OpenAI embeddings or ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed\n\n- [Cohere Embed and Rerank vs OpenAI embeddings](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-embed-vs-openai-embeddings.md)\n- [Cohere Embed and Rerank vs ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-embed-vs-zeroentropy.md)\n- [Gemini Embedding vs OpenAI embeddings](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-embedding-vs-openai-embeddings.md)\n- [Gemini Embedding vs ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-embedding-vs-zeroentropy.md)\n- [Jina Embeddings and Reranker vs OpenAI embeddings](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-vs-openai-embeddings.md)\n- [Jina Embeddings and Reranker vs ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-vs-zeroentropy.md)\n- [Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed vs OpenAI embeddings](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-embeddings-vs-openai-embeddings.md)\n- [Mistral Embed and Codestral Embed vs ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-embeddings-vs-zeroentropy.md)\n- [OpenAI embeddings vs Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-embeddings-vs-voyage-ai.md)\n- [Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers vs ZeroEntropy zerank and zembed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/voyage-ai-vs-zeroentropy.md)\n",
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