Context—
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. 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%. It supports a combined context length of 32K tokens per query-document pair, including up to 8K tokens for the query, and follows instructions that guide relevance scoring.