Voyage 4 Lite measured on 5 of 261 Embeddings benchmarks5
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Alternatives?
ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
CheaperQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+17%-50%$0.01OOpenOcten Embedding 8B+35%——
CheaperNemotron 3 Embed 1B BF16Open+7%-25%$0.015VBetterVoyage 4 Largeunstated+13%+500%$0.12VBetterVoyage 3 Large+6%+800%$0.18ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+17%-50%$0.01Nemotron 3 Embed 1B BF16Open+7%-25%$0.015ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+17%-50%$0.01Nemotron 3 Embed 1B BF16Open+7%-25%$0.015VVoyage 4 Largeunstated+13%+500%$0.12VVoyage 3 Large+6%+800%$0.18OOcten Embedding 8BOpen+35%——ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
OOcten Embedding 8BOpen+35%——lOcten Law 8B v1Open+34%——OOcten Embedding 8B INT8Open+34%——bMoD EmbeddingOpen+29%——OOcten Embedding 4BOpen+28%——ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
VVoyage 4 Largeunstated+7%+500%$0.12VVoyage 3 Large+6%+800%$0.18VVoyage 4+3%+200%$0.06VVoyage 3.5unstatedsame+200%$0.06VVoyage Law 2unstated-2%+500%$0.12Max input: 32K tokens → 16K tokensVVoyage 3unstated-6%+200%$0.06VVoyage 3 Liteunstated-15%same$0.02VVoyage 4 NanoOpenn/a——All Voyage AI (MongoDB) models →History
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How much does Voyage 4 Lite cost?›
$0.02 per 1M tokens.
Is Voyage 4 Lite free to use?›
There is no free API; it costs $0.02 per 1M tokens.
How good is Voyage 4 Lite, and what is it best at?›
#38 of 212 in Embeddings.
Is Voyage 4 Lite better than Voyage 3.5?›
On RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages), Voyage 4 Lite scores 57.7 vs 58.1 — about the same. It is 67% cheaper.
When was Voyage 4 Lite released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2026-01-15. It is the current version in its line.
Is Voyage 4 Lite open source?›
No, Voyage 4 Lite is a closed model available through an API. The closest open-weights option here is Octen Embedding 8B.
What is Voyage 4 Lite?›
Voyage 4 Lite is a closed embeddings & retrieval model from Voyage AI (MongoDB), released Jan 2026.
What are the best alternatives to Voyage 4 Lite?›
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (cheaper), Octen Embedding 8B (open weights).