What are the hardware requirements for Fara 7B?

Fara 7B requires approximately 16.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 125K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Fara 7B and how large is it?

Fara 7B is developed by microsoft, a model with 7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Fara 7B?

Fara 7B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Fara 7B by microsoft — VRAM 16.6GB, 125K context

Name: Fara 7B
Author: microsoft

Fara 7B is an open-source language model by microsoft. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 16.6GB, Context: 125K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

Arxiv:2511.19663 Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Multimodal Qwen2 5 vl Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara-7B

Fara 7B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Fara 7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara-7B
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	16.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	microsoft
Model Type	qwen2_5_vl
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.7 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration
License	mit
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Best Alternatives to Fara 7B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
OmniLong Qwen2.5 VL 7B	512K / 16.6 GB	7	2
Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct	125K / 16.7 GB	8740905	1666
OlmOCR 2 7B 1025 FP8	125K / 10 GB	540426	253
UI TARS 1.5 7B	125K / 33.2 GB	889094	586
RolmOCR	125K / 16.6 GB	224280	589
PosterCopilot	125K / 16.7 GB	29	1
Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct FP4	125K / 7.2 GB	49165	3
X Reasoner 7B	125K / 16.5 GB	1030	10
Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct NVFP4	125K / 7.2 GB	8092	16
GTA1 7B	125K / 16.6 GB	5046	3

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than microsoft/Fara-7B.