VoyageAI by MongoDB: rerank-3-lite

rerank-3-lite is a reranker optimized for both latency and quality and a drop-in upgrade to rerank-2.5-lite, improving on it by 0.94% NDCG@10 on average across domain evaluations and by 1.86% on long-document evaluations, with code retrieval gains of 2.77% atop voyage-3-large and 2.59% atop voyage-4-large. It matches the retrieval quality of rerank-2.5, and across 93 retrieval datasets it outperforms Cohere Rerank v4.0 Pro by 1.44% and Qwen3-Reranker-8B by 2.61%. 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. Additionally, rerank-3-lite supports instruction following, allowing users to guide relevance scoring through natural language prompts. Learn more about rerank-3-lite here: blog.voyageai.com/2026/09/30/rerank-3