There is no per-unit API price: API price not public.
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#51 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages), UAE Large v1 scores 40.5 vs 40.5 — about the same.
Released 2023-12-04. 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.
UAE Large v1 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from WhereIsAI, released Dec 2023.
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).