There is no per-unit API price: API price not public.
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#58 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB English v2 · Retrieval · English, Mxbai Embed Large v1 scores 55.4 vs 55.4 — about the same.
Released 2024-03-07. 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.
Mxbai Embed Large v1 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from mixedbread-ai, released Mar 2024.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Yuan Embedding 2.0 En (open weights).