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cross-encoder-russian-msmarco vs gte-reranker-modernbert-base
Cross-encoder-russian-msmarco has 178M parameters and gte-reranker-modernbert-base has 150M parameters; cross-encoder-russian-msmarco is released under MIT License and gte-reranker-modernbert-base under Apache License 2.0; at 16-bit, cross-encoder-russian-msmarco needs about 0.4 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour) and gte-reranker-modernbert-base about 0.4 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour).
| Field | cross-encoder-russian-msmarco DiTy/cross-encoder-russian-msmarco | gte-reranker-modernbert-base Alibaba-NLP/gte-reranker-modernbert-base |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Dmitry Tishencko | Alibaba-NLP |
| Task | Text ranking | Text ranking |
| Modality | Other | Other |
| Parameters, as reported | 178M parameters | 150M parameters |
| Architecture | BertForSequenceClassification | ModernBertForSequenceClassification |
| Library | sentence-transformers | transformers |
| Context length | 512 tokens | 8,192 tokens |
| Repository size | 716.7 MB | 2.5 GB |
| Artifact formats | safetensors | safetensors, onnx |
| License | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Access | Open weights, no gate | Open weights, no gate |
| Memory at 16-bit (weights and margin) | 0.4 GB | 0.4 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 16-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Memory at 4-bit (weights and margin) | 0.1 GB | 0.1 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 4-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Revision viewed | 9029bab08103 | f7481e605550 |
| Downloads reported by the hub | 236.4k | 2.6M |
| Last observed | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-18 |
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SAVRN's Notes on gte-reranker-modernbert-base
After the retriever returns its candidates, something must order them, and that is the job of gte-reranker-modernbert-base. It scores a query and a passage as a pair, with an 8,192 token context, so a long passage is judged whole. It needs 0.4 GB at 16-bit, so on the lowest-priced Index configuration, a lone MI300X at $1.85 per hour with 192 GB, it shares a card with the embedding model at no added hardware cost.
Apache 2.0 clears a commercial ranking service: use, modify, redistribute, keep the notices, state significant changes, take the patent grant. Lineage is the check here. The checkpoint is derived from answerdotai/ModernBERT-base, so read that base model's terms, and the paper on file, arXiv:2308.03281, covers the multi-stage contrastive training method. The 15 files total 2.5 GB in safetensors and ONNX against 0.3 GB of 16-bit weights: budget the download, not the memory.
Questions
Which is larger, cross-encoder-russian-msmarco or gte-reranker-modernbert-base?
cross-encoder-russian-msmarco (178M parameters) is larger than gte-reranker-modernbert-base (150M parameters), by the parameter counts their publishers report.
Which is cheaper to run, cross-encoder-russian-msmarco or gte-reranker-modernbert-base?
At 4-bit, cross-encoder-russian-msmarco fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour and gte-reranker-modernbert-base on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.
Can I use cross-encoder-russian-msmarco commercially?
Yes. cross-encoder-russian-msmarco 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.
Can I use gte-reranker-modernbert-base commercially?
Yes. gte-reranker-modernbert-base 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.