bge-reranker-base vs ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-reranker-base | ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 280 M | — |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaForSequenceClassification | BertForSequenceClassification |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 2 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 4,552,180 | 307,591 |
| Downloads all time | 43.5 M | 661 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-11 | 2024-01-04 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
4.9 M250 K
bge-reranker-base
ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-reranker-base · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB