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The card says to run it inside Microsoft's own harness, the fara CLI or MagenticLite (checked 2026-11-10).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-11-10).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-10" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/microsoft/fara", "capabilities": [ "browser.control", "desktop.control", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "computer-use", "browser-agent", "gui-agent", "vision", "tool-calling", "english", "mit", "safetensors", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-27", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1518, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 80, "reach": 70, "risk": 75, "upkeep": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "breakdown": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "weight": 35, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending for this listing. Nobody independent has published results for it in at least two areas yet, so its weight is shared across the other four and the total is capped at 61 until they do or our own runs start." }, { "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "weight": 25, "effectiveWeight": 38.46, "score": 70, "points": 26.92, "reason": "Memory 25, the only build from Microsoft is the BF16 safetensors, 18.82 GB, and 18.82 GB × 1.2 = 22.6 GB, within 24 GB. bartowski's GGUF isn't read for this line. Runtimes 15, the architecture is Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration, which vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23 and Transformers 5.22.2 run from the safetensors files, three at 5 each. Builds 0, Microsoft publishes the BF16 weights only. Terms 15, MIT in the card's metadata and its licence section, an OSI licence with nothing added. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 5, the card links an Azure Foundry page for this model, Microsoft's own platform. 25 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 70.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "weight": 20, "effectiveWeight": 30.77, "score": 75, "points": 23.08, "reason": "File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository. Provenance 15, the files sit in Microsoft's verified microsoft organisation, which the card's GitHub repository belongs to (10), and the Hub gives a SHA-256 for the large files (5). Safety evaluation 0, the card says the model was red-teamed on Azure for groundedness, jailbreak resistance, harmful content and copyright, and publishes no results. Agent guidance 10, the card says what the trained pauses and refusals cover (three kinds of critical point, with the actions it stops on, and refusal data for harmful tasks) and the safeguards to add: a sandbox with no host files or credentials, allow-listed browsing, live monitoring with a way to halt, and checking its output. Licence risk 15, MIT has no use policy, threshold or change clause. Security programme 10, the microsoft/fara repository has a SECURITY.md, Microsoft's standard route to MSRC (5), and MSRC publishes advisories in public, as recorded on our other Microsoft listings (5). 25 + 15 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 75.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 15.38, "score": 80, "points": 12.31, "reason": "Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (7,756 characters), Qwen 3.5's template. Tool-calling format 25, Microsoft documents the format: a tool_call block holding a JSON call to computer_use, a table of the supported actions, the system prompt to send, a serve command for vLLM and a worked loop, with the full schema in its harness. Trained tool calling 10, one action per step: the model sees a screenshot, emits one tool call, and waits for the next screenshot, the one-at-a-time band. Structured output 15, Read for a computer-use model as typed outputs, as the other one we list was read. Reasoning control 0, the card says each reply opens with a chain-of-thought block and documents no way to turn it off or budget it. Context 10, 262,144 tokens per the card's details table, and config.json gives the language model 262,144 positions. 20 + 25 + 10 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 80.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 15.38, "score": 60, "points": 9.23, "reason": "Model card 20, Intended use, out-of-scope use and known limitations, the architecture, the parameters, the context, the language (English only) and the data cut-off (20 March 2026) are all on the card. Training data 15, A data section that names the kinds of source and the mix, the scale, the cut-off (last acquisition 20 March 2026) and the filtering (a verifier keeps only successful trajectories). Last change 10, the last commit, on 27 July 2026, is 106 days before this check and within 180. Responsiveness 0, Neither of the 2 discussions that aren't pull requests (25 July and 10 August 2026) has a reply from a microsoft member, counted on 10 November by author flags and dates with a script, text not read. Version policy 5, the card says future updates will ship as separately versioned models with their own cards, and the earlier Fara model stays in its own repository. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture and the 262,144-token context. 20 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 60.", "checked": "2026-11-10" } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-11-10", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "notes": { "capability": "Pending for this listing. Independent results were found in 0 areas (none), and Capability needs 2. Its weight is shared across the other four categories and the total is capped at 61 until there are more, or our own runs start.", "interface": "Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (7,756 characters), Qwen 3.5's template. Tool-calling format 25, Microsoft documents the format: a tool_call block holding a JSON call to computer_use, a table of the supported actions, the system prompt to send, a serve command for vLLM and a worked loop, with the full schema in its harness. Trained tool calling 10, one action per step: the model sees a screenshot, emits one tool call, and waits for the next screenshot, the one-at-a-time band. Structured output 15, Read for a computer-use model as typed outputs, as the other one we list was read. Reasoning control 0, the card says each reply opens with a chain-of-thought block and documents no way to turn it off or budget it. Context 10, 262,144 tokens per the card's details table, and config.json gives the language model 262,144 positions. 20 + 25 + 10 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 80.", "reach": "Memory 25, the only build from Microsoft is the BF16 safetensors, 18.82 GB, and 18.82 GB × 1.2 = 22.6 GB, within 24 GB. bartowski's GGUF isn't read for this line. Runtimes 15, the architecture is Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration, which vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23 and Transformers 5.22.2 run from the safetensors files, three at 5 each. Builds 0, Microsoft publishes the BF16 weights only. Terms 15, MIT in the card's metadata and its licence section, an OSI licence with nothing added. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 5, the card links an Azure Foundry page for this model, Microsoft's own platform. 25 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 70.", "risk": "File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository. Provenance 15, the files sit in Microsoft's verified microsoft organisation, which the card's GitHub repository belongs to (10), and the Hub gives a SHA-256 for the large files (5). Safety evaluation 0, the card says the model was red-teamed on Azure for groundedness, jailbreak resistance, harmful content and copyright, and publishes no results. Agent guidance 10, the card says what the trained pauses and refusals cover (three kinds of critical point, with the actions it stops on, and refusal data for harmful tasks) and the safeguards to add: a sandbox with no host files or credentials, allow-listed browsing, live monitoring with a way to halt, and checking its output. Licence risk 15, MIT has no use policy, threshold or change clause. Security programme 10, the microsoft/fara repository has a SECURITY.md, Microsoft's standard route to MSRC (5), and MSRC publishes advisories in public, as recorded on our other Microsoft listings (5). 25 + 15 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 75.", "upkeep": "Model card 20, Intended use, out-of-scope use and known limitations, the architecture, the parameters, the context, the language (English only) and the data cut-off (20 March 2026) are all on the card. Training data 15, A data section that names the kinds of source and the mix, the scale, the cut-off (last acquisition 20 March 2026) and the filtering (a verifier keeps only successful trajectories). Last change 10, the last commit, on 27 July 2026, is 106 days before this check and within 180. Responsiveness 0, Neither of the 2 discussions that aren't pull requests (25 July and 10 August 2026) has a reply from a microsoft member, counted on 10 November by author flags and dates with a script, text not read. Version policy 5, the card says future updates will ship as separately versioned models with their own cards, and the earlier Fara model stays in its own repository. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture and the 262,144-token context. 20 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 60." }, "sources": [ { "what": "model card", "url": "https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "gating, dates, parameter count, downloads, likes, file list and hashes", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B?blobs=true", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "inference providers, none mapped", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B?expand[]=inferenceProviderMapping", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "commit history", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B/commits/main", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "architecture and positions", "url": "https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B/raw/main/config.json", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "chat template", "url": "https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B/raw/main/chat_template.jinja", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "discussions, replies counted by script from authors, dates and member flags", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B/discussions", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "bartowski's GGUF repository, a third party's conversion", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/bartowski/Fara1.5-9B-GGUF?blobs=true", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "the fara repository's security policy", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/fara/main/SECURITY.md", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "vLLM v0.33.0 registry, Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm/v0.33.0/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "SGLang v0.5.23 qwen3_5 (shallow clone)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgl-project/sglang/v0.5.23/python/sglang/srt/models/qwen3_5.py", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "Transformers v5.22.2 qwen3_5", "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/v5.22.2/src/transformers/models/qwen3_5", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "our other Microsoft listings, for company facts", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/microsoft-agent-framework", "seen": "2026-11-10" } ], "openQuestions": [ "It's filed under desktop-automation beside Microsoft's other computer-use model, though it drives browsers only. The browser category holds hosted tools", "Hosted is 5 on the card's link to Azure Foundry, which wasn't read", "Agent guidance is 10, as on our other Microsoft agent listings. The card's sandbox and allow-list advice is close to prompt-injection guidance, which would be 15", "The card's out-of-scope list includes commercial production use without more testing. That is advice under an MIT licence, not a licence term", "Capability is pending because no independent results were looked up on the day", "unchecked on 10 November: the paper (2606.20785), the fara repository's harness, MagenticLite, the Azure Foundry page and GitHub issues" ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A browser agent model with unusually careful documentation: what it does, what it's trained to stop at, what it gets wrong and how to box it in, under MIT. Treat it as a component for Microsoft's harness, in a sandbox, with a person on the irreversible steps. Safety testing is described but not published, and it's English only.", "bestFor": "Developers building a supervised web-browsing agent who want open weights and clear safety behaviour", "strengths": [ "Trained to pause before purchases, sign-ins, messages and entering personal data", "A complete card, with limitations, data make-up and a cut-off", "MIT, ungated", "Every action is a JSON call against a documented schema", "Runs in released vLLM, SGLang and Transformers with no repository code" ], "weaknesses": [ "Screenshots only, so a page can mislead or instruct it", "Safety red-teaming is described without results", "English only", "One build, in BF16, and no GGUF from Microsoft", "The card says not to use it in production without more testing and safeguards", "The repository's history was squashed" ], "agentNotes": [ "Run it inside Microsoft's harness (the fara CLI or MagenticLite), in a sandboxed browser with an allow-list. The card says not to give it open access on a machine with anything sensitive", "Send the card's system prompt word for word. The model was trained against it", "Match a 1440×900 screen for reliable clicks", "Expect it to stop and ask before purchases, sign-ins, messages or personal data unless the user authorised them up front. Pass the question to the user; don't answer for them", "Treat page text as untrusted. The model can be redirected by instructions on a page", "It emits one action per turn at temperature 0, and ends with `terminate`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 80, "reach": 70, "risk": 75, "upkeep": 60 }, "provenanceScore": 67, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-11-10", "reach": "2026-11-10", "risk": "2026-11-10", "upkeep": "2026-11-10" }, "last": "2026-11-10", "oldest": "2026-11-10", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 }, "scoreHistory": [ { "date": "2026-11-10", "grade": "C", "kind": "listed", "method": "0.7", "score": 61 } ] }, "connect": { "install": "pip install \"vllm\u003e=0.33.0\"\nvllm serve microsoft/Fara1.5-9B --dtype bfloat16 --max-model-len 262144 --limit-mm-per-prompt image=10\n# then drive it with Microsoft's harness: github.com/microsoft/fara, or MagenticLite (github.com/microsoft/magentic-ui)", "http": "# vLLM serves an OpenAI-compatible API at http://localhost:8000/v1. Send the card's system prompt word for word,\n# the goal and the latest screenshot as an image part, at temperature 0. The reply ends in one tool_call block" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/browser.control", "tool": "https://letme.dev/fara1-5-9b" }, "sameCompany": [ "azure-openai", "azure-foundry-fine-tuning", "azure-ai-content-safety", "azure-speech-to-text", "azure-text-to-speech", "microsoft-agent-framework", "microsoft-execution-containers", "microsoft-entra-agent-id", "azure-key-vault", "bing-grounding", "azure-document-intelligence", "azure-devops-mcp", "microsoft-learn-mcp", "tokeneconomizer", "playwright-mcp", "azure-mcp", "azure-maps", "azure-translator", "microsoft-graph-calendar", "azure-blob-storage", "onedrive-sharepoint", "microsoft-teams", "dynamics-365-sales", "copilot-studio-mcp", "power-automate", "foundry-local", "microsoft-decision-1", "microsoft-advertising-api", "microsoft-excel-graph", "outlook-mail-graph", "microsoft-graph-people", "fara1-5-27b", "fara1-5-4b", "mage-vl-cowork" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Microsoft Research AI Frontiers", "builtOn": "Qwen3.5-9B, fine-tuned, per the card and the metadata", "params": "9B", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "Driving a web browser from screenshots inside a sandbox: forms, bookings, shopping and look-ups, with a person approving the irreversible steps. Fits a 24 GB GPU in BF16.", "runtimes": [ "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers", "llama.cpp" ], "builds": [ { "name": "bartowski Fara1.5-9B-GGUF (Q4_K_M)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Fara1.5-9B-GGUF", "who": "bartowski", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 6.83, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "From bartowski, a third party's conversion and not Microsoft's. 5.91 GB of Q4_K_M weights plus the 0.92 GB F16 projector, from the Hub's model information on 10 November 2026. Reach doesn't count it" }, { "name": "bartowski Fara1.5-9B-GGUF (Q8_0)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Fara1.5-9B-GGUF", "who": "bartowski", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 10.47, "memoryGB": 16, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "From bartowski, a third party's conversion and not Microsoft's. 9.55 GB of Q8_0 weights plus the 0.92 GB F16 projector, from the Hub's model information on 10 November 2026. Reach doesn't count it" }, { "name": "Fara1.5-9B (BF16 safetensors)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 18.82, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "note": "The only build Microsoft publishes" } ], "run": "vllm serve microsoft/Fara1.5-9B --dtype bfloat16 --max-model-len 262144 --limit-mm-per-prompt image=10", "runBuild": "Fara1.5-9B (BF16 safetensors)", "checked": "2026-11-10", "minMemoryGB": 12 }, "family": { "lab": "Microsoft", "family": "Fara", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#microsoft", "others": [ { "name": "Fara1.5-27B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-27B", "params": "27B (27,356,728,560 by the Hub's safetensors count)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fara1-5-27b" }, { "name": "Fara1.5-4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-4B", "params": "4.5B (4,539,265,536 by the Hub's safetensors count)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fara1-5-4b" } ] }, "notable": [ "2,889 downloads in the last 30 days and 64 likes on Hugging Face on 10 November 2026 (https://huggingface.co/api/models/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B)", "Trained to stop and ask at three kinds of critical point: missing personal information, an ambiguous task, and an irreversible action such as a purchase, a sign-in or sending a message (https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B)", "The card reports 86.6 on WebVoyager, 63.4 on Online-Mind2Web and 32.3 on WebTailBench for this size. These are Microsoft's numbers (https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B)", "It sees the page only as screenshots, so the card warns that text on a page can try to redirect it, and says not to give it unrestricted browser access on a machine with anything sensitive (https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B)", "The card gives the data's make-up, about 1 billion text tokens and under 1 billion images, and a last acquisition date of 20 March 2026 (https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B)", "Neither of its 2 discussions has a reply from Microsoft. The card says it was red-teamed on Azure for jailbreaks and harmful content and publishes no results (https://huggingface.co/api/models/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B/discussions)" ], "area": "developer", "details": [ { "label": "Surface graded", "value": "The open weights at huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the config, the chat template, the commit history, bartowski's GGUF repository and the runtimes' own code at their latest releases on 10 November 2026. Microsoft's company facts come from our other Microsoft listings. The paper, the fara repository beyond the presence of its security policy, MagenticLite and the Azure Foundry page weren't read. Nothing was downloaded or run" }, { "label": "Model", "value": "9,409,813,744 parameters in the files. A multimodal decoder-only model from Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, fine-tuned with supervision from Qwen3.5-9B on trajectories from FaraGen1.5, Microsoft's multi-agent data pipeline. Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration" }, { "label": "Input and output", "value": "In: the user's goal, the latest screenshot or screenshots and the earlier thoughts and actions. Out: a chain-of-thought block, then one tool_call block holding a JSON object that calls computer_use with an action: clicks and drags at pixel coordinates, typing and keys, scrolling, visit_url, web_search, ask_user_question, wait or terminate. The card says it was mostly trained at a 1440×900 screen" }, { "label": "Context", "value": "262,144 tokens, per the card's details table and config.json. The card's loop keeps only the most recent screenshots in the history" }, { "label": "Files", "value": "Safetensors in BF16 (18.82 GB), chat_template.jinja, config, processor and tokenizer files. No pickle files and no Python. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for the large files" }, { "label": "Licence", "value": "MIT, in the card's metadata and its licence section. There is no LICENSE file in the model repository. The base model, Qwen3.5-9B, is Apache 2.0" }, { "label": "Runtimes", "value": "The card documents vLLM. Released vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23 and Transformers 5.22.2 run the Qwen 3.5 architecture from the safetensors files. llama.cpp has the architecture too, and Microsoft publishes no GGUF, so the GGUF files on the Hub are bartowski's" }, { "label": "Recommended settings", "value": "The card's system prompt, word for word, temperature 0 and up to 2,048 output tokens in its example loop, with up to 10 images a prompt on vLLM" }, { "label": "Hardware", "value": "No memory figure on the card. The files are 18.82 GB in BF16. Trained on 32 NVIDIA B200 GPUs for 4 days" }, { "label": "Training data", "value": "Synthetic web-task trajectories kept only when a verifier agent judged them successful, grounding sets with coordinates, UI understanding data from page screenshots, and refusal data for harmful tasks. About 1 billion text tokens and under 1 billion images, English only, with the last data acquired on 20 March 2026, per the card" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Microsoft", "domain": "microsoft.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-9B/commits/main", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-11-10", "notes": [ "The files sit in Microsoft's microsoft organisation on Hugging Face, and the card names Microsoft Research AI Frontiers as developer. Domain and security.txt are carried from our other Microsoft listings.", "Nothing is hosted under this listing, so MIT stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the commit history. 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