LLM Reference

BGE Reranker V2 M3

bge-reranker-v2-m3

Researched today

Last refreshed 2026-05-22. Next refresh: weekly.

BGE Reranker V2 M3 is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Coding task fit, 1 tracked provider route, and research from 2026-05-22.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 8K context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows

Cheapest output

-

Novita AI per 1M tokens

Provider routes

1

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-05-22

Researched today

fresh

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Novita AI$0.010-
ServerlessPartial

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

BGE Reranker V2 M3 is BAAI's lightweight multilingual cross-encoder reranking model from the FlagEmbedding project, based on the BGE-M3 backbone. Accepts query-passage pairs and outputs direct relevance scores. Supports multi-lingual processing with 568 million parameters. Part of the BGE reranker v2 series released March 2024 alongside LLM-based rerankers.

BGE Reranker V2 M3 has a 8K-token context window.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyBGE
Released2024-03-18
Parameters568M
Context8K
Architectureencoder_only
Specializationgeneral
LicenseMIT
Trainingpretrained

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