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.
#139 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish, Sentence Croissant Alpha v0.3 scores 45.1 vs 45.1 — about the same.
Released 2024-04-26. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open.
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Sentence Croissant Alpha v0.3 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from manu, released Apr 2024.
Bge M3 (better), Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct (open weights).
BetterBge M3unstatedOpen+42%—$0.01
OpenGte Qwen2 1.5B Instructunstated+44%——Memory (4-bit): 0.8 GB → 0.9 GBiBetterMultilingual E5 LargeunstatedOpen+37%—$0.01iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+18%—$0.01
BetterJina Embeddings v5 Text NanounstatedOpen+41%—$0.02
Text Embedding 3 Smallunstated+32%—$0.02