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.
#85 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB English v2 · Summarization · English, GritLM 8x7B scores 35.6 vs 35.7 — about the same.
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 8x7B is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from GritLM, released Feb 2024.
Gemini Embedding 001 (better), LGAI Embedding Preview (open weights).