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.
#171 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB English v2 · Retrieval · English, Cai Lunaris Text Embeddings scores 26 vs 26.5 — about the same.
Released 2023-06-22. 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.
Cai Lunaris Text Embeddings is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from consciousAI, released Jun 2023.
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Yuan Embedding 2.0 En (open weights).