bge-reranker-base vs distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

BAAI · A
Params
280 M
Context
512
30d
4.6 M
mit · commercial OK
distilbert · B
Params
70 M
Context
512
30d
3.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-reranker-base distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english
Parameters 280 M 70 M
Architecture XLMRobertaForSequenceClassification DistilBertForSequenceClassification
Context length 512 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 2 1
Downloads 30d 4,552,180 3,651,414
Downloads all time 43.5 M 396.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-11 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

4.9 M3.6 M
bge-reranker-base distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
bge-reranker-base · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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