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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

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1Qwen 3 Embedding 8B86.42Seed1.6 Embedding 121585.53Harrier OSS v1 27B85.44Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct85.15Octen Embedding 8B85.1
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72NV Embed v176.273Voyage 376.274Granite Embedding 311M Multilingual R276.1

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Embeddings & Retrieval#76 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
CheaperQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+13%-83%$0.01BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+7%-97%$0.002Max input: 32K tokens → 2K tokensCheaperQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+12%-67%$0.02CheaperJina Embeddings v5 Text NanounstatedOpen+8%-67%$0.02Max input: 32K tokens → 8K tokensiCheaperE5 Mistral 7B InstructunstatedOpen+6%-63%$0.022

History

6 versions
767676.176.176.176.2Oct 24Jan 25Release dateMTEB multilingual · Pair Classification33.5 · Jan
767676.176.176.176.2Oct 24Jan 25Release dateMTEB multilingual · Pair Classification3

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese46.2#56
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English74.1#10
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English74.1#10
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English74.1#10
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German60.5#60
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German54.8#30
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German33.4#32
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English1.3#28
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)69.4#49
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)84.9#69
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)66.7#4
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)60.7#24
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)81#76
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French60.7#57
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French42#50
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French63.6#42
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)68.2#28
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)41.6#47
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)87.2#20
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)87#9
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi62.8#84
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)37.1#41
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch88.4#55
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish58.7#42
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish80.2#57
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese18.2#138
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)64.1#15
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)64.1#15
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)64.1#15
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)61.5#15
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)60.6#20
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)65.1#12
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English35.5#119
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese81.2#50
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English1.3#28
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English1.3#28
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English1.3#28
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish44.5#43
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish61.1#97
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai61.5#95
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai38.1#85
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)58.6#28
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)58.8#30
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)57.9#56
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)73.6#7
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)41.2#44
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)62.6#113
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian58.8#52
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian56.3#39
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian31.2#78
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian52#118
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)46#56
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German65#32
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)54.3#37
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)68.5#62
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
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)76.2#73

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 NV Embed v1?›

On MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages), Voyage 3 scores 76.2 vs 76.2 — 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 Qwen 3 Embedding 8B.

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), EmbeddingGemma 300M (better).