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.
#37 of 200 in Embeddings. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.
On MTEB Persian v2 · Mean over tasks · Persian, Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct scores 64.6 vs 65.3 — about the same.
Released 2024-06-15. 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 7B Instruct is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Alibaba (Qwen), released Jun 2024.
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), F2LLM v2 14B (open weights).