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.
#172 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German, STS Multilingual Mpnet Base v2 scores 52.7 vs 52.7 — about the same.
Released 2024-06-07. 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.
STS Multilingual Mpnet Base v2 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Gameselo, released Jun 2024.
Jina Embeddings v5 Text Nano (better), Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct (open weights).