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 Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian, Gte Multilingual Base scores 35 vs 35.2 — 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.
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 0826 (open weights).