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.
#49 of 200 in Embeddings. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.
On MTEB German v1 · Classification · German, Gte Qwen1.5 7B Instruct scores 74.9 vs 76 — lower.
Released 2024-04-20. 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 Qwen1.5 7B Instruct is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Alibaba (Qwen), released Apr 2024.
Jina Embeddings v5 Text Nano (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).