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.
#164 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages), Static Similarity Mrl Multilingual v1 scores 71.8 vs 72 — about the same.
Released 2025-01-15. 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.
Static Similarity Mrl Multilingual v1 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from sentence-transformers, released Jan 2025.
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small (open weights).