Voyage AI

situational

Embedding and rerank APIs — large free-token grants, then cheap per-million rates.

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ledger entry · observed by @whysanesanders

Retrieval people already know the name. The public docs (updated 2026-08-13) still give 200M free tokens on voyage-4 family, then $0.02–$0.12/1M. Rerank is a separate meter. Batch is cheaper and burns no free grant. Not a vector database — pair with Chroma/Qdrant/Pinecone.

Strengths

Generous 200M free-token grant on the voyage-4 family.
Cheap per-million rates after the free grant.
Strong name recognition in retrieval and rerank stacks.

Known limitations

Free tokens do not apply to Batch API.
Domain models (finance/law/code-2) only include 50M free tokens.
Multimodal is token + pixel billed; tiny images still hit a 50k-pixel floor.
Fine-tuned dedicated instances are sales-only.

Use it when

RAG pipelines that need embeddings and reranking from one vendor.
Teams building retrieval stacks with Chroma, Qdrant, or Pinecone.
Workloads that can use batch mode to burn no free grant and save cost.

Skip it when

You planned to use the free-token grant for Batch API calls.
You need domain-specific models beyond the 50M free allocation.
You want self-serve fine-tuned dedicated instances rather than sales-only.

Buy-check

·Price — freemium, voyage-4 $0.06/1M after 200M free tokens; voyage-4-lite $0.02/1M; rerank-2.5 $0.05/1M after 200M free; Batch API 33% off, no free-token apply as of 2026-08-19. Open the pricing page, not a screenshot.
·Free tier — Free tier exists — burn it first.
·Cancel fallout — What happens to your data/projects on cancel — check the ToS, not the FAQ.
·Seat math — Per-seat pricing multiplies quietly. Count seats before the annual plan.
·Who skips it — Also skipped when: You planned to use the free-token grant for Batch API calls.; You need domain-specific models beyond the 50M free allocation..

Price trailchangelog →

No price move in this repo yet.

Facts

pricing: freemium¹
price note: voyage-4 $0.06/1M after 200M free tokens; voyage-4-lite $0.02/1M; rerank-2.5 $0.05/1M after 200M free; Batch API 33% off, no free-token apply
free tier: yes
open source: no
api: yes
self-host: no
category: data
evidence: source-verified