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Voyage 3 Lite

Sep 2024
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$0.02per 1M tokens
50.3MTEB English v2
Sep 2024released
32K tokensMax input

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1FollowIR 7B12.22Qwen 3 Embedding 4B11.63Llama Embed Nemotron 8B10.84Qwen 3 Embedding 8B10.15Octen Embedding 8B8.9
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90Paraphrase Multilingual Mpnet Base v2-1.191Voyage 3 Lite-1.292Arabic MiniLM L12 v2 All Nli Triplet-1.2

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Embeddings & Retrieval#103 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
CheaperQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+11.2-50%$0.01BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+6.8-90%$0.002Max input: 32K tokens → 2K tokensOpenQwen 3 Embedding 4Bunstated+12.7same$0.02CheaperQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+6.3-50%$0.01iCheaperMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpensame-50%$0.01Max input: 32K tokens → 1K tokens

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese47.3#46
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English71.4#19
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English71.4#19
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English71.4#19
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German34#27
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German63.6#48
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German52.6#52
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)58.6#11
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)69.8#34
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)82.2#71
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)58.2#29
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)41.7#52
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-1.2#91
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)84.3#68
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)58#52
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French46.5#21
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French63.1#47
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French58.3#90
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)63.2#23
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)59.8#25
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)64.1#19
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)80.1#19
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)60.6#33
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)85.3#38
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi60.5#95
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)31.9#66
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)36.1#43
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch87.9#59
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish78.3#57
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish59.1#34
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19.7#95
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)60.8#17
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)60.8#17
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)60.8#17
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)55.4#31
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)55.4#31
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)58#31
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English34.4#139
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese73.7#72
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-1.2#91
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-1.2#91
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-1.2#91
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish58.8#123
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish48.2#23
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai39.5#76
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai61.3#96
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)58.4#21
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)59#20
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)42.2#28
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)59.3#40
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)68.2#17
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)66.3#81
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian59.2#47
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian54.1#43
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian52.7#111
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian31#75
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)33.6#84
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German62#39
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)49.1#45
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)57.9#52
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)44.8#52
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)68.2#63
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)75.1#82
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)58.6#49
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)60.1#70
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-1.2#91
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)60.3#66

FAQ

How much does Voyage 3 Lite cost?›

$0.02 per 1M tokens.

Is Voyage 3 Lite free to use?›

There is no free API; it costs $0.02 per 1M tokens.

How good is Voyage 3 Lite, and what is it best at?›

#103 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Voyage 3 Lite better than Paraphrase Multilingual Mpnet Base v2?›

On FollowIR · Mean over task types · English, Voyage 3 Lite scores -1.2 vs -1.1 — about the same.

When was Voyage 3 Lite released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2024-09-18. It is the current version in its line.

Is Voyage 3 Lite open source?›

No, Voyage 3 Lite is a closed model available through an API. The closest open-weights option here is Qwen 3 Embedding 4B.

What is Voyage 3 Lite?›

Voyage 3 Lite is a closed embeddings & retrieval model from Voyage AI (MongoDB), released Sep 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Voyage 3 Lite?›

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (cheaper), EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Qwen 3 Embedding 4B (open weights).