Voyage AI
The benchmark leader — hosted accuracy worth paying for.
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sovereigntyVoyage (now part of MongoDB) tops the retrieval benchmarks: voyage-3-large leads MTEB at $0.18/1M tokens, and voyage-4-lite price-matches OpenAI's small tier at $0.02 while sharing the flagship's embedding space. The honest hosted upgrade when retrieval quality directly drives your product.
SOURCE-AVAILABLEProprietary hosted service
LicenseProprietary hosted service
Pricingvoyage-4-lite $0.02/1M · voyage-3-large $0.18/1M tokens
Open sourceNo
Self-hostableNo
Local-first dataNo
What it does well
- +Best measured retrieval quality on MTEB
- +Strong on code and technical documents
- +Lite tier price-matches OpenAI's small
Where it falls short
- −Hosted only — your corpus leaves your infrastructure
- −MongoDB-owned roadmap
- −Flagship pricing is the category's highest
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