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.
#74 of 238 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages), Udever Bloom 7b1 scores 59.8 vs 60 — 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 7b1 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from izhx, released Oct 2023.
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), F2LLM v2 14B (open weights).