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.
#105 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages), Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct scores 66.8 vs 66.9 — about the same.
Released 2024-07-29. 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 Qwen2 1.5B Instruct is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Alibaba (Qwen), released Jul 2024.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small (open weights).