$0.025 per 1M characters.
There is no free API; it costs $0.025 per 1M characters.
#64 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian, Text Multilingual Embedding 002 scores 60.4 vs 60.5 — about the same.
Released 2024-05-14. It is the current version in its line.
No, Text Multilingual Embedding 002 is a closed model available through an API. The closest open-weights option here is Giga Embeddings Instruct.
Text Multilingual Embedding 002 is a closed embeddings & retrieval model from Google, released May 2024.
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Giga Embeddings Instruct (open weights).