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.
#145 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB German v1 · Classification · German, Embedder 100p scores 63 vs 63.1 — about the same.
Released 2023-07-24. 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.
Embedder 100p is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from deepfile, released Jul 2023.
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).