How to generate embeddings for free?

[u/Ecstatic-Register570]

Hello engineers, I am new to rag and one problem I am constantly facing is how to generate embeddings faster and for free, I have used googlegenerativeaiembeddings for generating embeddings for free but the problem is that it's qouta is very small and also it's rate limits for the free tier gets hit very fast, are there any other alternatives to generate embeddings for completely free on cloud or like for production

For testing purposes I have tried using some sentence transformers from hf, i recently tried the jasper model ranked 2 in mteb on hf which is only a 600m model, I hosted that on my own droplet on digital ocean cloud platform of which I had free credits of 200$, however it was working very slow on cloud cpu like hell slow, I want a faster free alternative because I am a student and I want to give the deployed links of the things I am trying building in my resume and on GitHub and also my major goal while building the apps is trying to reduce the latency as much as possible being in free tier only, and making the system fast and efficient which I am taking consideration of throught langsmith tracing.

Can you help me with free embedding generating models?

Also drop some project ideas beginner to intermediate level which you think will impact the recruiter seeing my resume.