Voyage AI (MongoDB)
Specialised embedding and reranker provider — voyage-3, voyage-multilingual, voyage-finance, voyage-law, voyage-code. Acquired by MongoDB Feb 2025 for $220M.
Acquired · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 20 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Premium embedding + reranker API vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Embedding & reranker services
- Latest release
- v0.5.0 (2026-07-10) — voyageai (PyPI) registry fix
- License
- proprietary; SDKs MIT (Python, TypeScript) registry fix
- Pricing
- Per-token with free allowance: voyage-4-large $0.12/1M tokens, voyage-4 $0.06, voyage-4-lite $0.02 (first 200M tokens free); rerank-3 $0.05/1M, rerank-3-lite $0.02/1M; multimodal $0.12/1M tokens + $0.60/1B pixels vendor fix
- Funding
- Acquired by MongoDB for $220M in 2025-02; previously $28M total (Series A 2024 led by CRV). vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- model-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial registry fix
- SDK languages
- python, rest, typescript vendor fix
When to use
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Pros & cons
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Claims & capabilities
Acquired by MongoDB Feb 2025 for $220M.
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST API, Python SDK, TypeScript SDK
- Backend storage
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- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Voyage API; AWS and Azure Marketplace model packages in customer VPC; on-prem and model licensing by request
- Embedding model
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- Multi-tenancy
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- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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Sources (19 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Premium embedding + reranker API vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Specialised embedding and reranker provider — voyage-3, voyage-multilingual, voyage-fina… vendor
- Claims / benefits Acquired by MongoDB Feb 2025 for $220M. vendor
- Created 2023 vendor
- Latest release v0.5.0 (2026-07-10) — voyageai (PyPI) registry
- License proprietary; SDKs MIT (Python, TypeScript) registry
- GitHub voyage-ai/voyageai-python — ~114 stars, last commit 2026-10 (official Python SDK) repo
- Funding Acquired by MongoDB for $220M in 2025-02; previously $28M total (Series A 2024 led by CR… vendor
- Customers / scale Harvey AI, Glean, DataStax, MongoDB Atlas; enterprise embeddings/rerankers. vendor
- Pricing Per-token with free allowance: voyage-4-large $0.12/1M tokens, voyage-4 $0.06, voyage-4-… vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Voyage API; AWS and Azure Marketplace model package… vendor
- HQ US vendor
- Founders / pedigree Tengyu Ma (Stanford), Tony Wu; founded 2023; acquired by MongoDB 2025-02. vendor
- API surface REST API, Python SDK, TypeScript SDK vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial registry
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup model-infra repo
- sdk-languages python,rest,typescript vendor
What changed
Changes to this record's lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting facts, from the catalog's git history. Subscribe (Atom)
- 2026-10-27
- License first recorded as “proprietary; SDKs MIT (Python, TypeScript)” source
- Latest release first recorded as “v0.5.0 (2026-07-10) — voyageai (PyPI)” source
- Pricing first recorded as “Per-token with free allowance: voyage-4-large $0.12/1M tokens, voyage-4 $0.06, voyage-4-lite $0.02 (first 200M tokens free); rerank-3 $0.05/1M, rerank-3-lite $0.02/1M; multimodal $0.12/1M tokens + $0.60/1B pixels” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Voyage API; AWS and Azure Marketplace model packages in customer VPC; on-prem and model licensing by request” source
Related systems
Referenced by (20)
- Braintrust integrates with — Braintrust docs have a Voyage AI (MongoDB) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Chroma integrates with — Chroma's docs have a Voyage AI (MongoDB) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- CrewAI integrates with — CrewAI knowledge docs show Voyage AI as a knowledge embedding provider. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Haystack (framework) integrates with — Haystack integrations directory has a Voyage AI integration page ("Use text embeddings and rerankers from Voyage AI"). (verified 2026-10-29)
- LanceDB integrates with — LanceDB's docs have a Voyage AI (MongoDB) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — LangChain docs have a VoyageAI by MongoDB integration provider page (Embedding models and semantic search). (verified 2026-10-29)
- LiteLLM integrates with — LiteLLM docs have a Voyage AI provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — LlamaIndex has an official embeddings integration package llama-index-embeddings-voyageai in its repo. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mastra integrates with — Mastra repo ships the Voyage AI embedder package. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Milvus integrates with — Milvus's integrations overview lists a Milvus + Voyage AI (MongoDB) integration tutorial. (verified 2026-10-29)
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search integrates with — MongoDB's Atlas AI Integrations page lists Voyage AI (MongoDB) as an integration (some entries are marked community-maintained). (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenRouter integrates with — OpenRouter lists VoyageAI by MongoDB as an inference provider (providers API slug "voyageai"). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Phidata (now Agno) integrates with — Agno ships a voyageai embedder (agno.knowledge.embedder.voyageai). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pinecone integrates with — Pinecone's integrations directory has a Voyage AI (MongoDB) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Voyage AI LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pydantic-AI integrates with — Pydantic AI embeddings docs list VoyageAI as an embeddings provider. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Voyage AI (MongoDB) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vercel AI SDK integrates with — AI SDK docs have a Voyage AI official AI SDK provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weaviate integrates with — Weaviate's integrations / model-provider docs list Voyage AI (MongoDB) as an integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Zep & Graphiti integrates with — Graphiti README lists Voyage among supported embedder providers. (verified 2026-10-29)