Smallest rag models for RTX 4090 24GB

Verified open rag models that fit in 24 GB on RTX 4090 24GB, smallest first — with license clarity and hosted-download status. Top pick: BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma (~1.87 GB).

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Verified open rag models that fit in 24 GB on RTX 4090 24GB, smallest first — with license clarity and hosted-download status. Top pick: BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma (~1.87 GB).

#ModelEst. VRAMLicenseCommercialHostingFit page
1BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
2mixedbread-ai/mxbai-rerank-xsmall-v1~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
3openai-community/openai-gpt~1.87 GBmityesexternalcheck
4Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
5skt/A.X-K1~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
6Salesforce/codet5-small~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
7bartowski/command-a-plus-05-2026-GGUF~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
8FinText/TimesFM_20M_2023_Augmented~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
9allenai/led-large-16384-arxiv~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
10Olafangensan/GLM-4.7-Flash-heretic~1.87 GBmityesexternalcheck

Other GPUs: RTX 3090 24GB · RTX 3060 12GB · NVIDIA T4 16GB (free Colab) · A100 80GB · H100 80GB · mac-m3-max-64

Other tasks on RTX 4090 24GB: coding · chat · reasoning · translation · summarization · vision · audio · agents

Fit = weights + KV-cache estimate under 24 GB. Recomputed hourly from live catalog state.