# Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family

DevFeed: [Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-the-ettin-reranker-family-7186.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/ettin-reranker>)

Author: Tom Aarsen

Published: 2026-05-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [sentence-transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sentence-transformers.md>), [Transformer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transformer.md>), [long-context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/long-context.md>), [Agent Skill](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-skill.md>)

Tags: [ai-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-coding.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [long-context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/long-context.md>), [nlp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nlp.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [ranking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ranking.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [retrieval](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrieval.md>), [sentence-transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sentence-transformers.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces six Sentence Transformers CrossEncoder rerankers built on Ettin ModernBERT encoders. It explains their distillation-based training, retrieval-then-rerank usage, quality and cost trade-offs, and support for up to 8K tokens of context.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.