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.
#170 of 200 in Embeddings.
On LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English, Jina Embeddings v2 Small En scores 5.5 vs 5.9 — about the same.
Released 2023-09-27. 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.
Jina Embeddings v2 Small En is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Jina AI, released Sep 2023.
E5 Base v2 (better), Uibk Embedding v1 (open weights).