General-purpose reranker with instruction following optimized for both latency and quality, with improved long-context and code retrieval. Context length: 32K for queries & documents (8K for queries).
Rerankers are neural networks that predict the relevancy scores between a query and documents and rank them based on the scores. They are used to refine search results in semantic search/retrieval systems and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
rerank-3-lite is the next generation of Voyage AI's reranker optimized for both latency and quality, and a drop-in upgrade to rerank-2.5-lite that requires no code changes. Trained with an updated backbone and an improved mixture of training data, rerank-3-lite improves on rerank-2.5-lite across nearly all domains, with the largest gains on long documents and code, and is roughly on par with the retrieval quality of rerank-2.5. Relevance scores are calibrated to match the score distribution of rerank-2.5-lite, so score thresholds tuned on rerank-2.5-lite continue to work.
Averaged across 95 retrieval datasets in 9 domains and four first-stage retrieval methods, rerank-3-lite outperforms Cohere Rerank v4.0 Pro, Qwen3-Reranker-8B, and rerank-2.5-lite by 2.23%, 2.53%, and 1.10% NDCG@10, respectively - outperforming Qwen3-Reranker-8B, the leading open-weights reranker, despite being over an order of magnitude smaller. On long-document retrieval, rerank-3-lite outperforms rerank-2.5-lite by 1.86% and Cohere Rerank v4.0 Pro by 13.80%. On code retrieval, it outperforms rerank-2.5-lite by more than 3.5% atop both voyage-3-large and voyage-4-large.
The model supports a combined context length of 32K tokens per query-document pair, including up to 8K tokens for the query, enabling more accurate retrieval over longer documents. rerank-3-lite also retains the instruction-following capability introduced in the rerank-2.5 series, allowing users to guide relevance scoring through natural language instructions. On the MAIR instruction-following benchmark, it outperforms rerank-2.5-lite by 0.91% and Cohere Rerank v4.0 Pro by 2.34%.
Optimized for both latency and quality, and a drop-in upgrade to rerank-2.5-lite with no code changes: same API, 32K-token combined context length per query-document pair (up to 8K for the query), and instruction following, with relevance scores calibrated so existing rerank-2.5-lite score thresholds continue to work.
Outperforms Cohere Rerank v4.0 Pro by 2.23%, Qwen3-Reranker-8B by 2.53%, and rerank-2.5-lite by 1.10% NDCG@10 on average across 95 retrieval datasets spanning 9 domains, and is roughly on par with the retrieval quality of rerank-2.5.
Largest gains on long documents and code: outperforms rerank-2.5-lite by 1.86% and Cohere Rerank v4.0 Pro by 13.80% on long-document retrieval, and rerank-2.5-lite by more than 3.5% on code retrieval atop both voyage-3-large and voyage-4-large.
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You pay by the host hour based on the AWS instance you run the reranker model on. Seventeen options cover real-time inference across GPU instance families in a range of sizes, from smaller single-GPU types to larger multi-GPU types. One option covers batch inference on the ml.g5.xlarge instance. Pricing scales with the instance size and family you choose, plus the inference mode. Real-time endpoints run continuously, while batch mode runs finite jobs on datasets. Your total hourly cost combines this software rate with the underlying AWS infrastructure rate.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What counts as one host hour for billing on a real-time endpoint?
One host hour is one hour that a deployed instance runs as a persistent inference endpoint. Real-time endpoints run continuously and bill per running hour until you delete them. Canceling your subscription does not stop active endpoints, so delete endpoints you no longer need to avoid charges.
How does the batch option differ from real-time inference for billing?
Real-time endpoints stay running and bill per host hour for request-by-request inference. The batch option on ml.g5.xlarge runs a finite job that processes a dataset and writes predictions to a file, then ends. Batch suits bulk processing; real-time suits ongoing live requests.
Is the price shown my total cost per hour?
No. Your total hourly cost combines two parts. The software rate shown here covers model usage. The underlying AWS instance infrastructure is billed separately at its own hourly rate. Rates also vary by instance type and region. Add both to estimate your true hourly spend.
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MongoDB is excited to announce the initial release of rerank-3-lite.
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Summary
Supply a query and a list of documents to score for relevance.
Note: Does NOT support batch transform.
Limitations for input type
Total request size, calculated as the query tokens multiplied by the number of documents plus the tokens of all documents, cannot exceed 600,000 tokens.
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General-purpose reranker with instruction following optimized for both latency and quality. Context length: 32K for queries & documents (8K for queries).
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