diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 68cc372..2e102b4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ rankllm = [
   "nmslib-metabrainz; python_version >= '3.10'",
   "rank-llm; python_version >= '3.10'"
 ]
+fastembed = ["fastembed"]
 dev = ["ruff", "isort", "pytest", "ipyprogress", "ipython", "ranx", "ir_datasets", "srsly"]
 
 [project.urls]
diff --git a/rerankers/models/__init__.py b/rerankers/models/__init__.py
index 15d81d4..6922cd9 100644
--- a/rerankers/models/__init__.py
+++ b/rerankers/models/__init__.py
@@ -58,3 +58,10 @@
     AVAILABLE_RANKERS["MonoVLMRanker"] = MonoVLMRanker
 except ImportError:
     pass
+
+try:
+    from rerankers.models.fastembed_ranker import FastEmbedRanker
+
+    AVAILABLE_RANKERS["FastEmbedRanker"] = FastEmbedRanker
+except ImportError:
+    pass
diff --git a/rerankers/models/fastembed_ranker.py b/rerankers/models/fastembed_ranker.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2de9efd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rerankers/models/fastembed_ranker.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+from rerankers.results import RankedResults
+from rerankers.models.ranker import BaseRanker
+from rerankers.results import RankedResults, Result
+from fastembed.rerank.cross_encoder import TextCrossEncoder
+from rerankers.utils import prep_docs
+
+
+class FastEmbedRanker(BaseRanker):
+
+    def __init__(self, model_name_or_path, verbose=None):
+
+        self.model = TextCrossEncoder(model_name=model_name_or_path)
+
+    def rank(self, query, docs):
+        docs = prep_docs(docs)
+        scores = list(self.model.rerank(query, [d.text for d in docs]))
+        indices = sorted(range(len(scores)), key=lambda k: scores[k], reverse=True)
+
+        ranked_results = [
+            Result(document=docs[idx], score=scores[idx], rank=i + 1)
+            for i, idx in enumerate(indices)
+        ]
+
+        return RankedResults(results=ranked_results, query=query, has_scores=True)
+
+    def score(self, query, doc):
+        score = list(self.model.rerank(query, [doc]))[0]
+        return score
diff --git a/rerankers/reranker.py b/rerankers/reranker.py
index 9e9bb02..9a8434a 100644
--- a/rerankers/reranker.py
+++ b/rerankers/reranker.py
@@ -38,8 +38,12 @@
     },
     "monovlm": {
         "en": "lightonai/MonoQwen2-VL-v0.1",
-        "other": "lightonai/MonoQwen2-VL-v0.1"
-    }
+        "other": "lightonai/MonoQwen2-VL-v0.1",
+    },
+    "fastembed": {
+        "en": "Xenova/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2",
+        "other": "Xenova/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2",
+    },
 }
 
 DEPS_MAPPING = {
@@ -52,7 +56,8 @@
     "FlashRankRanker": "flashrank",
     "RankLLMRanker": "rankllm",
     "LLMLayerWiseRanker": "transformers",
-    "MonoVLMRanker": "transformers"
+    "MonoVLMRanker": "transformers",
+    "FastEmbedRanker": "fastembed",
 }
 
 PROVIDERS = ["cohere", "jina", "voyage", "mixedbread.ai", "pinecone", "text-embeddings-inference"]
@@ -91,7 +96,8 @@ def _get_model_type(model_name: str, explicit_model_type: Optional[str] = None)
             "flashrank": "FlashRankRanker",
             "rankllm": "RankLLMRanker",
             "llm-layerwise": "LLMLayerWiseRanker",
-            "monovlm": "MonoVLMRanker"
+            "monovlm": "MonoVLMRanker",
+            "fastembed": "FastEmbedRanker",
         }
         return model_mapping.get(explicit_model_type, explicit_model_type)
     else:
@@ -115,7 +121,8 @@ def _get_model_type(model_name: str, explicit_model_type: Optional[str] = None)
             "zephyr": "RankLLMRanker",
             "bge-reranker-v2.5-gemma2-lightweight": "LLMLayerWiseRanker",
             "monovlm": "MonoVLMRanker",
-            "monoqwen2-vl": "MonoVLMRanker"
+            "monoqwen2-vl": "MonoVLMRanker",
+            "Xenova/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2": "FastEmbedRanker",
         }
         for key, value in model_mapping.items():
             if key in model_name: