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 multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages), Gte Qwen1.5 7B Instruct scores 60.8 vs 60.9 — about the same.
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.
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), KaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 (open weights).