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.
#54 of 89 in Multimodal.
On MIEB English · Zero-shot Classification · English, E5 V scores 50 vs 50.7 — about the same.
Released 2024-07-17. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open.
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
E5 V is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from royokong, released Jul 2024.
Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small (better), Siglip So400m Patch14 384 (open weights).