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 MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages), Gte Multilingual Base scores 72.9 vs 73 — about the same.
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.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Octen Embedding 8B (open weights).