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.
#180 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German, Squirtle scores 34.3 vs 34.7 — about the same.
Released 2024-04-30. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Squirtle is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Mihaiii, released Apr 2024.
E5 Base v2 (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).