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.
#188 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish, Gemma 2B Embeddings scores 30.7 vs 31 — about the same.
Released 2024-06-29. 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.
Gemma 2B Embeddings is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Jaume, released Jun 2024.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better).