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.
#119 of 238 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages), Udever Bloom 3B scores 46.8 vs 46.9 — about the same.
Released 2023-10-24. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigscience/license licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Udever Bloom 3B is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from izhx, released Oct 2023.
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), FlowVec v1 (open weights).