[Voyage AI](/ai-gateway/models/labs/voyage)

# Voyage 4 Lite

Voyage 4 Lite is the lightweight Voyage 4 model. Voyage AI reports it approaches voyage-3.5 retrieval accuracy with fewer parameters, shares one embedding space with `voyage-4-large` and `voyage-4`, and supports a context window of 32K tokens with Matryoshka dimensions and quantization like the rest of the family. Your use is subject to Voyage AI's [Terms](https://www.voyageai.com/tos) & [Privacy](https://www.voyageai.com/privacy) Policies.

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```
1import { embed } from 'ai';
2

3const result = await embed({
4  model: 'voyage/voyage-4-lite',
5  value: 'Sunny day at the beach',
6})
```

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## [Copy link to heading](#about-voyage-4-lite)About Voyage 4 Lite

Voyage 4 Lite strips down the Voyage 4 architecture to fewer parameters, released January 15, 2026. The result is a model that processes tokens faster and cheaper than its siblings while retaining enough retrieval quality for most production use cases.

Voyage AI benchmarks Voyage 4 Lite near voyage-3.5 retrieval accuracy. For teams running millions of daily requests or indexing large corpora on a budget, the per-token savings add up fast. Development and staging environments also benefit: cheaper iteration cycles let you experiment with chunking strategies and retrieval pipelines without burning through credits.

Because all Voyage 4 models produce compatible vectors, you aren't locked into Voyage 4 Lite for every step of your pipeline. Index your corpus with a stronger variant, then point live traffic at Voyage 4 Lite for lower query costs. No re-indexing required.