# bge-reranker-v2-m3 vs roberta-large-mnli: Specs and GPU Cost
Source: https://savrn.com/models/compare/bge-reranker-v2-m3-vs-roberta-large-mnli
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| Field | [bge-reranker-v2-m3](https://savrn.com/models/bge-reranker-v2-m3) BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 | [roberta-large-mnli](https://savrn.com/models/roberta-large-mnli) FacebookAI/roberta-large-mnli |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Publisher | Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence | Facebook AI community |
| Task | Text classification | Text classification |
| Modality | Text | Text |
| Parameters, as reported | 568M parameters | 356M parameters |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaForSequenceClassification | RobertaForSequenceClassification |
| Library | sentence-transformers | transformers |
| Context length | 8,194 tokens | 514 tokens |
| Repository size | 2.3 GB | 5.7 GB |
| Artifact formats | safetensors | safetensors, pytorch, jax, tf |
| License | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Access | Open weights, no gate | Open weights, no gate |
| Memory at 16-bit (weights and margin) | 1.4 GB | 0.9 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 16-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Memory at 4-bit (weights and margin) | 0.3 GB | 0.2 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 4-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Revision viewed | 953dc6f6f85a | 2a8f12d27941 |
| Downloads reported by the hub | 14.7M | 238.7k |
| Last observed | 2026-10-24 | 2026-09-18 |

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## SAVRN's Notes on bge-reranker-v2-m3

Feed it a query and a passage and it returns one relevance score, mapped by a sigmoid into the 0 to 1 range. That is the job of this 568M-parameter reranker from the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence: it scores pairs instead of producing embeddings, so it belongs behind whatever retrieval step supplies the candidates. At 16-bit the weights take 1.1 GB and the run needs 1.4 GB, against a cheapest listed setup of one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour. Nobody dedicates that card to 1.4 GB; the figure says it rides on whatever accelerator hosts your generator.

Apache 2.0 permits commercial use, modification and redistribution provided the notices and NOTICE file travel with it and significant changes are stated. Check that 8,194 tokens covers query plus passage together, and that no host on the SAVRN Index prices it per token, so you run it yourself.

SAVRN Research, 2026-09-18

## SAVRN's Notes on roberta-large-mnli

This is RoBERTa large fine-tuned on MultiNLI: it decides whether one sentence entails, contradicts or is neutral toward another. For years it was the standard engine behind zero-shot classification pipelines, and it has 356M parameters.

The MIT license allows commercial use. Newer NLI models in our catalog, especially the DeBERTa-v3 ones trained on several NLI datasets, are generally more accurate. Keep this one where an existing system depends on its behavior.

SAVRN Research, 2026-09-18

## Questions

### Which is larger, bge-reranker-v2-m3 or roberta-large-mnli?

bge-reranker-v2-m3 (568M parameters) is larger than roberta-large-mnli (356M parameters), by the parameter counts their publishers report.

### Which is cheaper to run, bge-reranker-v2-m3 or roberta-large-mnli?

At 4-bit, bge-reranker-v2-m3 fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour and roberta-large-mnli on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

### Can I use bge-reranker-v2-m3 commercially?

Yes. bge-reranker-v2-m3 is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

### Can I use roberta-large-mnli commercially?

Yes. roberta-large-mnli is released under MIT License. The MIT License is a short permissive license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, provided the copyright notice and permission notice are included.

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