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Voyage 3

Voyage AI's flagship embedding model. Top of MTEB across many tasks; the embedding service Anthropic recommends for Claude RAG workloads.

Modality
Embeddings
License
Proprietary (Proprietary)
Context window
32,000 tokens
Released
September 18, 2024
Last verified
May 10, 2026
Runs locally
No

Strengths

  • Top-tier MTEB performance
  • 32k input context — fits long documents
  • Domain-specialised variants (voyage-code, voyage-finance, voyage-law)

Weaknesses

  • Closed weights
  • Smaller ecosystem than OpenAI/Cohere

Try it

WhereTypeNotes
Voyage API hosted-api API key required, free tier

Official sources

Change log

  • — Initial entry.

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