Gte Base

$0.005 per 1M tokens.

There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.005 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

#91 of 200 in Embeddings.

On MTEB English v2 · Retrieval · English, Gte Base scores 51.9 vs 52 — about the same.

Through the thenlper API.

Released 2023-07-27. It is the current version in its line.

Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).

The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.

Gte Base is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from thenlper, released Jul 2023.

EmbeddingGemma 300M (cheaper), Yuan Embedding 2.0 En (open weights).