# Nomic Embed vs Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers (slim)

> Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Nomic Embed's 49.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Nomic Embed leads on security & auth. Both do embed text. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Nomic Embed's 49.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Nomic Embed leads on security & auth. Both do embed text.

- Nomic Embed: D 49.2, rank #613 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nomic-embed.min.md
- Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers: C 58.8, rank #445 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voyage-ai.min.md
- Nomic Embed, good for Teams that want a hosted endpoint for an open-weight model they can also run themselves, with the same vectors either way. Ahead on Security & auth, 62 against 45.
- Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers, good for Retrieval quality across domains, code and long documents, with a reranker from the same key. Ahead on Reliability, 45 against 38; Agent ergonomics, 98 against 69; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 78 against 28. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Nomic Embed | Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 38 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 61 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 98 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 45 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 28 | 78 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 46 | 49 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Nomic Embed | Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Nomic, Inc. | Voyage AI (MongoDB) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api-atlas.nomic.ai/v1/embedding/text` | `https://api.voyageai.com/v1/embeddings` |
| Price for embed text | $0.10 per 1M tokens | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted API. Model weights Apache-2.0 on Hugging Face. The Python client declares Apache in setup.py and the TypeScript client is MIT | MIT (SDK) |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2025-11-11 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-05-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-02-20 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 1.9k stars, 8.6k npm/wk, 3.8k PyPI/wk | 105 stars, 307k npm/wk, 937k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |