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.
#195 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian, Sbert Large MT Nlu Ru scores 64.4 vs 65.5 — lower.
Released 2021-05-18. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (not specified licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Sbert Large MT Nlu Ru is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from ai-forever, released May 2021.
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (open weights).