$0.005 per 1M tokens.
There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.005 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#130 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages), All Mpnet Base v2 scores 80.5 vs 80.6 — about the same.
Through the sentence-transformers API.
Released 2021-08-30. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
All Mpnet Base v2 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from sentence-transformers, released Aug 2021.
E5 Base v2 (better), Gte Qwen1.5 7B Instruct (open weights).