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.
#99 of 200 in Embeddings.
On LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English, Gte Multilingual Base scores 62.1 vs 63.7 — lower.
Released 2024-07-20. 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.
Gte Multilingual Base is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Alibaba (Qwen), released Jul 2024.
Voyage 3 Lite (better), Uibk Embedding v1 (open weights).