diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 69a8622..4a52b8a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ This project provides Python scripts to automatically build [llama.cpp](https://
 
 ### Installation
 ```bash
-# install Python dependencies
+# install Python dependencies (includes Transformers for reranking)
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 
 # run the first build immediately (includes reranking support)
@@ -49,9 +49,13 @@ python loadmodel.py ./models/bge-embedding-model.gguf --embed --local
 
 #### 3. Reranking Models
 ```bash
-# start reranking server
+
+# start reranking server (GGUF models)
 python loadmodel.py gpustack/bge-reranker-v2-m3-GGUF:Q8_0 --rerank
 
+# start Qwen3 reranker server
+python loadmodel.py Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-4B --rerank
+
 # local reranker model
 python loadmodel.py ./models/bge-reranker-v2-m3-Q8_0.gguf --rerank --local
 ```
diff --git a/loadmodel.py b/loadmodel.py
index 5a0e401..041afab 100644
--- a/loadmodel.py
+++ b/loadmodel.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import shlex
 import shutil
 import subprocess
+import sys
 from pathlib import Path
 
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
@@ -114,6 +115,13 @@ def main():
     elif args.rerank:
         mode = "rerank"
 
+    if mode == "rerank":
+        script = SCRIPT_DIR / "reranker.py"
+        cmd = [str(script), args.model, "--serve", "--host", args.host, "--port", str(args.port)]
+        print("Starting reranker server:\n", shlex.join([sys.executable] + cmd))
+        os.execv(sys.executable, [sys.executable] + cmd)
+        return
+
     model_path = resolve_model(args.model, args.local)
     server = find_llama_server()
     cmd = [str(server)] + build_args(model_path, mode, args.host, args.port, args.ctx_size, args.threads, args.gpu_layers, args.pooling, args.verbose)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2f6e248..71f6608 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,6 @@ requests
 python-dotenv
 colorama
 huggingface-hub
+torch
+transformers
+sentencepiece
diff --git a/reranker.py b/reranker.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..691cf6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reranker.py
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Generic reranker using HuggingFace Transformers.
+
+The script can score a list of documents for a query or run a minimal
+HTTP API compatible with the llama.cpp ``/rerank`` endpoint.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from typing import List
+from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
+
+import torch
+from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer
+
+
+def load_model(repo_or_path: str):
+    """Load tokenizer and model from a repo or local path."""
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo_or_path, trust_remote_code=True)
+    model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
+        repo_or_path, trust_remote_code=True
+    )
+    model.eval()
+    return tokenizer, model
+
+
+def rerank(query: str, docs: List[str], tokenizer, model, device: str = "cpu") -> List[tuple[str, float]]:
+    pairs = [f"{query}\n{doc}" for doc in docs]
+    encoded = tokenizer(pairs, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors="pt").to(device)
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        logits = model(**encoded).logits[:, 0]
+    scores = logits.cpu().tolist()
+    ranked = sorted(zip(docs, scores), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)
+    return ranked
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Rerank documents with Transformers")
+    parser.add_argument("model", help="model repo or local path")
+    parser.add_argument("query", nargs="?", help="query text")
+    parser.add_argument("documents", nargs="*", help="documents to rank")
+    parser.add_argument("--device", default="cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu", help="torch device")
+    parser.add_argument("--serve", action="store_true", help="run an HTTP server instead of CLI output")
+    parser.add_argument("--host", default="0.0.0.0")
+    parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=8000)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    tokenizer, model = load_model(args.model)
+    model.to(args.device)
+
+    if args.serve or not args.query:
+        class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
+            def do_POST(self):
+                if self.path != "/rerank":
+                    self.send_error(404)
+                    return
+                length = int(self.headers.get("Content-Length", 0))
+                body = self.rfile.read(length)
+                data = json.loads(body)
+                query = data.get("query", "")
+                docs = data.get("documents", [])
+                top_n = data.get("top_n", len(docs))
+                ranked = rerank(query, docs, tokenizer, model, args.device)[:top_n]
+                resp = {
+                    "results": [
+                        {"document": d, "score": s} for d, s in ranked
+                    ]
+                }
+                self.send_response(200)
+                self.send_header("Content-Type", "application/json")
+                self.end_headers()
+                self.wfile.write(json.dumps(resp).encode())
+
+        server = HTTPServer((args.host, args.port), Handler)
+        print(f"Reranker serving on {args.host}:{args.port}")
+        server.serve_forever()
+    else:
+        ranked = rerank(args.query, args.documents, tokenizer, model, args.device)
+        for idx, (doc, score) in enumerate(ranked, 1):
+            print(f"{idx}. {doc} (score={score:.4f})")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()