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.
#36 of 200 in Embeddings. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.
On LongEmbed · Retrieval · English, Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.0 scores 55.4 vs 55.5 — about the same.
Released 2024-12-04. 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.
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.0 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Snowflake, released Dec 2024.
Bge M3 (better), Uibk Embedding v1 (open weights).