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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

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1Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 082668.32Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 0826683FRIDA67.54Giga Embeddings Instruct67.55Qwen 3 Embedding 8B66.7
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47Bilingual Embedding Base5548Voyage 3 Lite54.149LaBSE Ru Turbo53.9

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Embeddings & Retrieval#103 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
CheaperQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+23%-50%$0.01BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+10%-90%$0.002Max input: 32K tokens → 2K tokensaOpenGiga Embeddings Instruct 3B 0826unstated+26%——Max input: 32K tokens → 8K tokensiCheaperMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+17%-50%$0.01Max input: 32K tokens → 1K tokensCheaperQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+12%-50%$0.01

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese47.3#52
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English71.4#19
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English71.4#19
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English71.4#19
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German63.6#51
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German52.6#58
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German34#30
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)58.2#32
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-1.2#91
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)69.8#46
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)84.3#81
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)41.7#52
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)58.6#22
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)58#52
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)82.2#71
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French63.1#50
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French46.5#21
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French58.3#90
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)63.2#27
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)59.8#29
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)64.1#25
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)60.6#38
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)31.9#66
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)85.3#38
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)80.1#23
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi60.5#96
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)36.1#43
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch87.9#59
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish59.1#40
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish78.3#65
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19.7#96
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)60.8#21
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)60.8#21
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)60.8#21
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)55.4#34
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)55.4#34
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)58#34
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English34.4#139
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese73.7#77
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 · Clustering · Spanish48.2#23
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish58.8#123
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai61.3#96
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai39.5#76
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)58.4#30
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)59#29
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)59.3#45
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)68.2#21
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)42.2#35
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)66.3#81
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian59.2#49
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian54.1#48
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian31#80
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian52.7#112
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)33.6#86
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German62#43
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)49.1#51
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)44.8#52
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)68.2#63
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)57.9#52
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)58.6#50
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
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)75.1#82

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 Bilingual Embedding Base?›

On MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian, Voyage 3 Lite scores 54.1 vs 55 — 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 Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 0826.

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), Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 0826 (open weights).