$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 Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian, Gte Base scores 17 vs 17.6 — about the same. It is 0% more expensive.
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), Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 0826 (open weights).
CheaperEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen×3.5-60%$0.002Languages: not verified+1aOpenGiga Embeddings Instruct 3B 0826unstated×4——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 1.9 GBiBetterE5 Base v2unstatedOpen+13%same$0.005
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen×3.9+100%$0.01Languages: not verified+1iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen×3.7+100%$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GB