There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#186 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages), Arabic English Sts Matryoshka scores 50.4 vs 51.1 — about the same.
Released 2024-10-13. 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.
Arabic English Sts Matryoshka is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from omarelshehy, released Oct 2024.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), STS Multilingual Mpnet Base v2 (open weights).