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 Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages), STS Multilingual Mpnet Base v2 scores 59 vs 59.5 — 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.
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).