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Bge-Base-EN-V1.5 vs BGE Reranker Base

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Bge-Base-EN-V1.5
baai/bge-base-en-v1.5
BGE Reranker Base
baai/bge-reranker-base
Provider
BAAI
BAAI
Family
BGE
BGE
Modality
embedding
rerank
Context window
Max output
Released
2023-09-25
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Input price
$0.020 /1M
Output price
$0.0000 /1M
Tools
Streaming
Vision
JSON mode
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Batch API
Try it
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Bge-Base-EN-V1.5
baai/bge-base-en-v1.5
Full spec →

BAAI general embedding (Base) model that transforms any given text into a 768-dimensional vector

Strengths
  • Semantic similarity
  • Vector search
Use cases
RAGSemantic searchRecommendation
BGE Reranker Base
baai/bge-reranker-base
Full spec →

Paired with bge-m3 for two-stage retrieval: recall with embeddings, precision with this reranker.

Strengths
  • Strong cross-encoder reranking
  • Open-weight
  • Near-free
Use cases
RAG rerankingSearch result reordering

Compare with another

Bge-Base-EN-V1.5 vs Bge-M3
baai/bge-base-en-v1.5 · baai/bge-m3
Bge-M3 vs Bge-Reranker-Base
baai/bge-m3 · baai/bge-reranker-base
Bge-Base-EN-V1.5 vs Bge-Small-EN-V1.5
baai/bge-base-en-v1.5 · baai/bge-small-en-v1.5
Bge-Reranker-Base vs Bge-Small-EN-V1.5
baai/bge-reranker-base · baai/bge-small-en-v1.5
Bge-Base-EN-V1.5 vs Bge-Large-EN-V1.5
baai/bge-base-en-v1.5 · baai/bge-large-en-v1.5
Bge-Large-EN-V1.5 vs Bge-Reranker-Base
baai/bge-large-en-v1.5 · baai/bge-reranker-base
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Bge-Base-EN-V1.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="baai/bge-base-en-v1.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# BGE Reranker Base
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="baai/bge-reranker-base",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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