What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B?

Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B requires approximately 1.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B and how large is it?

Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B is developed by Qwen, a model with 0.6b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B?

Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B by Qwen — VRAM 1.2GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 0.6b LLM, VRAM: 1.2GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

Arxiv:2506.05176 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-0.6b-bas... Endpoints compatible Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sentence-transformers Text-ranking

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B

Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 Reranker 0.6B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base
Model Size	0.6b
Required VRAM	1.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	1.2 GB
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151669
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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