There is no per-unit API price: price not verified.
#142 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB French v1 · Classification · French, E5 Base 4K scores 58.5 vs 59 — about the same.
Released 2024-03-28. 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.
E5 Base 4K is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from dwzhu, released Mar 2024.
Qwen 3 Embedding 0.6B (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).