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 · Pair Classification · German, Embedder 100p scores 55.7 vs 56.2 — 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.
Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small (better), Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct (open weights).