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 lite · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages), E5 V scores 58.3 vs 59.5 — lower.
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.
EmbeddingGemma 2 (better), E5 Omni 7B (open weights).