bge-reranker-large vs pplx-embed-v1-0.6b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
560 M
Context
512
30d
2.0 M
mit · commercial OK
perplexity-ai · B · Open weights
Params
600 M
Context
32,768
30d
461 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification bge-reranker-large pplx-embed-v1-0.6b
Parameters 560 M 600 M
Architecture XLMRobertaForSequenceClassification PPLXQwen3Model
Context length 512 32,768
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 2 1
Downloads 30d 2,041,111 460,968
Downloads all time 38.3 M 2.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2026-01-14

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

2.8 M461 K
bge-reranker-large pplx-embed-v1-0.6b

VRAM side by side

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

bge-reranker-large · fp16 3.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
pplx-embed-v1-0.6b · fp16 3.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

Adjacent comparisons