Voyage Multimodal-3
FreeMixed text-image documents
About Voyage Multimodal-3
Voyage AI's multimodal embedding models transform unstructured data from multiple modalities into a shared vector space. Unlike traditional models like CLIP, which process text and images separately, Voyage's models use a single backbone to directly vectorize inputs containing interleaved text and images. This eliminates the need for complex text extraction or ETL pipelines and removes modality bias in mixed-modality searches. The models support rich visual data such as PDF screenshots, slide decks, tables, figures, photos, and videos (video support via voyage-multimodal-3.5). They offer a context length of 32,000 tokens and various embedding dimensions (default 1024, with options 256, 512, 2048). Voyage multimodal embeddings are accessible through a Python API via the voyageai package, with usage-based pricing and a generous free tier (first 200M text tokens and 150B pixels free).
Key Features
Pros & Cons
- Eliminates need for complex text extraction pipelines and OCR
- Processes interleaved text and images in one call without separate encoders
- No modality bias – better retrieval relevance than CLIP for mixed data
- Large context window (32K tokens) for long documents
- Free tier generous enough for many applications
- Flexible embedding dimensions for different use cases
- API-based – not available for on-premise/local inference
- Pricing can accumulate for high volumes after free tier limits
- Video support only available in voyage-multimodal-3.5, not voyage-multimodal-3
- Image constraints: max 16 million pixels or 20 MB per image
- Dependency on third-party libraries (Pillow) for image handling
- Requires internet connectivity and API key for access