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 Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages), Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct scores 85 vs 86.2 — lower.
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.
Voyage 3 (better), Qwen Indic v1 (open weights).