Voyage AI Rerank 2.5 Lite vs Zerank 1 Small

Detailed comparison between Voyage AI Rerank 2.5 Lite and Zerank 1 Small. See which reranker best meets your accuracy and performance needs.

Model Comparison

Zerank 1 Small takes the lead.

Both Voyage AI Rerank 2.5 Lite and Zerank 1 Small are powerful reranking models designed to improve retrieval quality in RAG applications. However, their performance characteristics differ in important ways.

Why Zerank 1 Small:

  • Zerank 1 Small has 157 higher ELO rating
  • Voyage AI Rerank 2.5 Lite is 627ms faster on average
  • Zerank 1 Small has a 23.9% higher win rate

Overview

Key metrics

ELO Rating

Overall ranking quality

Voyage AI Rerank 2.5 Lite

1392

Zerank 1 Small

1549

Win Rate

Head-to-head performance

Voyage AI Rerank 2.5 Lite

33.9%

Zerank 1 Small

57.7%

Accuracy (nDCG@10)

Ranking quality metric

Voyage AI Rerank 2.5 Lite

0.500

Zerank 1 Small

0.498

Average Latency

Response time

Voyage AI Rerank 2.5 Lite

624ms

Zerank 1 Small

1251ms

Visual Performance Analysis

Performance

ELO Rating Comparison

Win/Loss/Tie Breakdown

Accuracy Across Datasets (nDCG@10)

Latency Distribution (ms)

Breakdown

How the models stack up

MetricVoyage AI Rerank 2.5 LiteZerank 1 SmallDescription
Overall Performance
ELO Rating
1392
1549
Overall ranking quality based on pairwise comparisons
Win Rate
33.9%
57.7%
Percentage of comparisons won against other models
Accuracy Metrics
Avg nDCG@10
0.500
0.498
Normalized discounted cumulative gain at position 10
Performance Metrics
Avg Latency
624ms
1251ms
Average response time across all datasets

Dataset Performance

By field

Comprehensive comparison of accuracy metrics (nDCG, Recall) and latency percentiles for each benchmark dataset.

BEIR/fiqa

MetricVoyage AI Rerank 2.5 LiteZerank 1 SmallDescription
Accuracy Metrics
nDCG@5
0.111
0.114
Ranking quality at top 5 results
nDCG@10
0.122
0.124
Ranking quality at top 10 results
Recall@5
0.103
0.098
% of relevant docs in top 5
Recall@10
0.135
0.125
% of relevant docs in top 10
Latency Metrics
Mean
592ms
1183ms
Average response time
P50
610ms
1170ms
50th percentile (median)
P90
770ms
1357ms
90th percentile

BEIR/scifact

MetricVoyage AI Rerank 2.5 LiteZerank 1 SmallDescription
Accuracy Metrics
nDCG@5
0.862
0.869
Ranking quality at top 5 results
nDCG@10
0.877
0.872
Ranking quality at top 10 results
Recall@5
0.892
0.916
% of relevant docs in top 5
Recall@10
0.930
0.920
% of relevant docs in top 10
Latency Metrics
Mean
642ms
1345ms
Average response time
P50
618ms
1272ms
50th percentile (median)
P90
816ms
1552ms
90th percentile

PG

MetricVoyage AI Rerank 2.5 LiteZerank 1 SmallDescription
Accuracy Metrics
Latency Metrics
Mean
637ms
1224ms
Average response time
P50
614ms
1187ms
50th percentile (median)
P90
817ms
1307ms
90th percentile

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