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Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B

by Qwen Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B

The Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker model series are the latest additions to the Qwen family, built upon the recently open-sourced and powerful Qwen3-VL foundation model.

Parameters2.1B
Context262,144
Weights4.3 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads1.2M

Runs On

What it takes to serve Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B (2.1B parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 4.3 GB 5.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 2.1 GB 2.6 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 1.1 GB 1.3 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B

Put this one behind a retrieval system, not in front of a user. A reranker reorders the candidates an embedding search returns, and this 2.1 billion parameter model does that across text, images, screenshots and video, being derived from Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct. It needs 5.1 gigabytes at 16-bit, 4.3 of them weights, 2.6 at 8-bit, 1.3 at 4-bit. On the cheapest host the Index lists, a 192 gigabyte MI300X at $1.85 an hour, it sits beside the embedding model and the generator: one card, the whole retrieval chain.

Apache 2.0 is the license, so the deployment has no user caps and no approval step; keep the license and NOTICE files and state significant changes. Access is open. Before committing, weigh the 262,144 token context length against the length of your query and document pairs, since a reranker scores every pair, and read arXiv 2601.04720, which describes it with its Qwen3-VL-Embedding companion.

Model Card

By Qwen, published under apache-2.0, revision 4bd860ac4f15.

## Highlights The **Qwen3-VL-Embedding** and **Qwen3-VL-Reranker** model series are the latest additions to the Qwen family, built upon the recently open-sourced and powerful Qwen3-VL foundation model. Specifically designed for multimodal information retrieval and cross-modal understanding, this suite accepts diverse inputs including text, images, screenshots, and videos, as well as inputs containing a mixture of these modalities. While the Embedding model generates high-dimensional vectors for broad applications like retrieval and clustering, the Reranker model is engineered to refine these results, establishing a comprehensive pipeline for state-of-the-art multimodal search. - **Multimodal Versatility**: Both models seamlessly handle a wide range of inputs—including text, images, screenshots, and video—within a unified framework. They deliver state-of-the-art performance across diverse multimodal tasks such as image-text retrieval, video-text matching, visual question answering (VQA), and multimodal content clustering. - **Unified Representation Learning (Embedding)**: By leveraging the Qwen3-VL architecture, the Embedding model generates semantically rich vectors that capture both visual and textual information in a shared space. This facilitates efficient…

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Configuration

Architecture
Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length (tokens)
262,144
Layers
28
Hidden size
2,048
Feed-forward size
6,144
Attention heads
16
Key/value heads
8
Head dimension
128
Vocabulary size
151,936
RoPE base
5,000,000
Model type
qwen3_vl

Identity and Version

Repository
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B
Publisher
Qwen
Task
Text ranking
Modality
Other
Library
transformers
Parameters
2.1B parameters
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
4bd860ac4f15ad1897a214615cccc700f8f71818
First published
2026-01-07
Last updated
2026-04-16

Files and Weights

20 files, 4.3 GB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 4.3 GB in safetensors.

Weights1 file · 4.3 GB
Configuration11 files · 16.9 KB
Tokenizer4 files · 15.9 MB
Documentation1 file · 13.3 KB
Other2 files · 7.7 KB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights4.3 GB 466ec0196106
1_LogitScore/config.jsonConfiguration57 B
added_tokens.jsonConfiguration707 B
config.jsonConfiguration1.7 KB
config_sentence_transformers.jsonConfiguration294 B
generation_config.jsonConfiguration213 B
modules.jsonConfiguration280 B
preprocessor_config.jsonConfiguration628 B
scripts/qwen3_vl_reranker.pyConfiguration10.9 KB
sentence_bert_config.jsonConfiguration756 B
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration613 B
video_preprocessor_config.jsonConfiguration817 B
README.mdDocumentation13.3 KB
additional_chat_templates/reranker.jinjaOther2.4 KB
chat_template.jinjaOther5.3 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB
merges.txtTokenizer1.7 MB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer11.4 MB aeb13307a71a
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer5.4 KB
vocab.jsonTokenizer2.8 MB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
4.3 GB
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Released by Qwen through ModelScope. Read the license.

Built From

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published4.3 GB
16-bit4.3 GB
8-bit2.1 GB
4-bit1.1 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

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Questions About Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B

How much GPU memory does Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B need?

About 5.1 GB at 16-bit and 1.3 GB at 4-bit: the weights (2.1B parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B commercially?

Yes. Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B 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.

What is Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B's context length?

262,144 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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