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Jonathan Ellis @jbellis

Voyage-3-large Surpasses Competition In Embedding Relevance

Voyage-3-large leads in embedding relevance, surpassing OpenAI's v3-large & NVIDIA's llama-v1. Stella & ModernBERT Embed also deliver impressive results, but Voyage-3-large stands out for its exceptional performance.

The just-released Voyage-3-large is the surprise leader in embedding relevance
With the exception of OpenAI (whose text-embedding-3 models from March 2023 are ancient in light of the pace of AI progress), all the prominent commercial vector embedding vendors released a new version of their flagship models in late 2024 or early 2025.
Here’s how the latest and greatest proprietary and open-source models stack up against each other in DataStax Astra DB vector search.

  
  
  Models tested

I tested eight commercial models from three categories:

The Gemini and OpenAI models are still the default...