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.
#71 of 200 in Embeddings.
On JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese, SFR Embedding 2 R scores 52.2 vs 52.5 — about the same.
Released 2024-06-14. 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.
SFR Embedding 2 R is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Salesforce, released Jun 2024.
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), F2LLM v2 14B (open weights).