$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 Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese, Gte Base scores 21.6 vs 21.7 — 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.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Yuan Embedding 2.0 Zh (open weights).
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen×4+100%$0.01Languages: not verified+1IOpenYuan Embedding 2.0 Zh×4.4——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.2 GB
BetterBge M3unstatedOpen×3.7+100%$0.01Languages: not verified+1iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen×3.5+100%$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GB
Youtu EmbeddingOpen×4.3——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 1.6 GBKQZhou Embedding ZhOpen×4.3——Languages: not verified+1rRitrieve Zh v1Open×4.2——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.2 GB