Fara1.5-9B GGUF
GGUF conversions of microsoft/Fara1.5-9B, Microsoft's 9B multimodal computer-use agent for screenshot-driven browser automation.
The files were converted from source revision 8238b75529e98434621204024b149860b8071d33 and validated with llama.cpp build b10066 (86a9c79f8).
Files
| File | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
Fara1.5-9B-Q4_K_M.gguf |
5.24 GiB | Recommended balance of size and quality; 5.02 BPW |
Fara1.5-9B-Q8_0.gguf |
8.87 GiB | Higher-fidelity 8-bit quantization; 8.50 BPW |
Fara1.5-9B-mmproj-F16.gguf |
0.855 GiB | F16 vision projector required for screenshot/image input with either quant |
The projector is shared by both text-model quantizations. Download it alongside the selected model file for multimodal use.
llama.cpp usage
Fara is a screenshot-driven computer-use model. For image grounding, use at least 1,024 image tokens:
llama-mtmd-cli \
-m Fara1.5-9B-Q4_K_M.gguf \
--mmproj Fara1.5-9B-mmproj-F16.gguf \
--image screenshot.png \
--image-min-tokens 1024 \
-ngl 99 \
-p "Describe the next browser action."
Server example:
llama-server \
-m Fara1.5-9B-Q4_K_M.gguf \
--mmproj Fara1.5-9B-mmproj-F16.gguf \
--image-min-tokens 1024 \
-ngl 99 \
--ctx-size 8192
For full computer-use behavior, follow the original model card's system prompt, tool schema, screenshot-history format, and critical-point safety requirements. Microsoft recommends running the browser in a sandbox with domain allow-lists, monitoring, and an immediate pause control. The model was most commonly trained with 1440 x 900 screenshots.
Conversion and validation
- Source: four BF16 safetensor shards, 760 indexed tensors, with no missing, extra, or misassigned tensors.
- Text GGUF architecture:
qwen35, 427 tensors. - Vision projector architecture:
clip, 334 tensors. - Quantization: standard
llama-quantizeQ8_0andQ4_K_Mwithout an importance matrix. - Runtime: both quantizations loaded and generated successfully on an RTX 4090.
- Multimodal: Q4_K_M plus the F16 projector successfully encoded and interpreted a repository screenshot.
SHA-256
83198b9f854655de273841116135bd7d12ea763c0fab6c198fb91de3b5fe4441 Fara1.5-9B-Q8_0.gguf
8cd4370324f5477ebd48b59ad32bdc1edc19dcb8dcf21479c7bebd3ed572dc7f Fara1.5-9B-Q4_K_M.gguf
6b9299f56b6c1cc0eab1e3404664137bdde4dbd139da2ead59502d7da340547c Fara1.5-9B-mmproj-F16.gguf
Fara1.5-9B is released under the MIT license. See the original model card for intended use, limitations, safety guidance, evaluation results, and attribution.