There is no per-unit API price: API price not public.
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#60 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages), GritLM 7B scores 76.9 vs 79.6 — lower.
Released 2024-02-15. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
GritLM 7B is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from GritLM, released Feb 2024.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small (open weights).