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.
#39 of 238 in Embeddings.
On MTEB English v2 · Pair Classification · English, B1ade Embed scores 87.1 vs 87.1 — about the same.
Released 2025-03-10. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
B1ade Embed is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from w601sxs, released Mar 2025.
Voyage Large 2 Instruct (better), QZhou Embedding (open weights).