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Voyage 3

Sep 2024
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$0.06per 1M tokens
53.5MTEB English v2
Sep 2024released
32K tokensMax input

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1STS Multilingual Mpnet Base v284.82KaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 251163.43Harrier OSS v1 27B63.44Gemini Embedding 00162.95Octen Embedding 8B61.9
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46Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct41.847Voyage 341.648Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano41.4

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Embeddings & Retrieval#76 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
CheaperQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+48%-83%$0.01GOpenSTS Multilingual Mpnet Base v2unstated×2——Max input: 32K tokens → 0K tokensCheaperQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+46%-67%$0.02CheaperJina Embeddings v3unstatedOpen+31%-17%$0.05Max input: 32K tokens → 8K tokensiCheaperMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+29%-83%$0.01Max input: 32K tokens → 1K tokens

History

6 versions
30323436384042Oct 24Jan 25Release dateMTEB Indic · STS33.5 · Jan
30323436384042Oct 24Jan 25Release dateMTEB Indic · STS3

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese46.2#50
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English74.1#10
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English74.1#10
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English74.1#10
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German33.4#29
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German60.5#57
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German54.8#24
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)66.7#3
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)69.4#37
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)81#76
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English1.3#28
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)84.9#56
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)60.7#24
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French42#50
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French60.7#54
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French63.6#42
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)87#7
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)68.2#24
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)87.2#20
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi62.8#84
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)41.6#47
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)37.1#41
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch88.4#55
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish80.2#49
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish58.7#36
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese18.2#137
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)64.1#11
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)64.1#11
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)64.1#11
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)61.5#14
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)60.6#18
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)65.1#12
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English35.5#119
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese81.2#46
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English1.3#28
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English1.3#28
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English1.3#28
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish61.1#97
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish44.5#43
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai38.1#85
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai61.5#95
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)58.6#19
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)58.8#21
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)41.2#37
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)57.9#51
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)73.6#7
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)62.6#113
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian58.8#50
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian56.3#34
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian52#117
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian31.2#73
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)46#54
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German65#29
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)54.3#32
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)68.5#62
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)76.2#73
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)66.2#15
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)60#71
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English1.3#28
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)63.4#38

FAQ

How much does Voyage 3 cost?›

$0.06 per 1M tokens.

Is Voyage 3 free to use?›

There is no free API; it costs $0.06 per 1M tokens.

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

#76 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Voyage 3 better than Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct?›

On MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages), Voyage 3 scores 41.6 vs 41.8 — about the same.

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

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

Is Voyage 3 open source?›

No, Voyage 3 is a closed model available through an API. The closest open-weights option here is STS Multilingual Mpnet Base v2.

What is Voyage 3?›

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

What are the best alternatives to Voyage 3?›

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (cheaper), STS Multilingual Mpnet Base v2 (open weights).