$0.01 per 1M tokens.
There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.01 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#78 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian, Gte Large scores 33.7 vs 33.9 — 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 Large is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from thenlper, released Jul 2023.
EmbeddingGemma 300M (cheaper), Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 0826 (open weights).