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Voyage AI

The benchmark leader — hosted accuracy worth paying for.

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Voyage (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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Where Voyage AI shows up in our comparisons, and how it ranked.

Voyage AI head-to-head

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