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.
#19 of 200 in Embeddings. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.
On MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian, Linq Embed Mistral scores 74.9 vs 75 — about the same.
Released 2024-05-29. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (cc-by-nc-4.0 licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Linq Embed Mistral is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Linq-AI-Research, released May 2024.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better).