Fara 1.5 4B

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Fara 1.5 4B is a screenshot-based browser agent checkpoint that generates coordinate-grounded actions through Microsoft’s Fara harness.

Key specifications

Specification score
50.2
Context window
262.14K
License
MIT
Parameters
4.54B

The specification score summarizes recorded features and limits. It is not a benchmark result.

Inputs and outputs

Recorded modality support shows what this model can accept and produce. An undocumented modality is shown as unknown rather than assumed to be unsupported.

Accepts

  • Text input
  • Image input

Produces

  • Text output

Capabilities

ReasoningFunction callingVisionStreamingOpen weights

What is Fara 1.5 4B?

Fara 1.5 4B is a screenshot-based browser agent checkpoint that generates coordinate-grounded actions through Microsoft’s Fara harness.

A browser agent model

Fara 1.5 reads the user’s goal, current screenshots and prior action history, then produces reasoning and an XML-tagged tool-call block. Its visual perception works from screenshots rather than requiring DOM access. The checkpoint supports a 262,144-token context.

Use the supplied harness

Microsoft recommends the Fara CLI or MagenticLite, which supplies the action executor, browser environment and controls expected by the model. The checkpoint alone does not move a pointer or navigate a browser. Keep the documented system prompt and action format so predicted coordinates are interpreted correctly.

A smaller deployment candidate

The 4B version is a candidate when GPU memory and local deployment are priorities. Its complete multimodal weight set is larger than the language-backbone label alone suggests.

Evaluate the completed workflow

Test a form draft, a multi-step information lookup and a task that encounters an unexpected dialog. Review the resulting page state, not only the model’s description of its actions. The harness should preserve the documented pauses at critical actions and expose a trace that a reviewer can inspect. The weights are MIT-licensed; browser operations and GPU serving costs depend on your deployment.

Sources

Model documentation

How to evaluate Fara 1.5 4B

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Tasks and inputs

Fara 1.5 4B is listed for Image-text-to-text, Computer Use. It accepts text, image and produces text. Use the publisher’s input format and preprocessing for your chosen deployment.

Capacity and cost

Documented limits: 262.14K context. Measure a completed task using the prompts, documents and tools your application will use. Include reasoning and retries in the result.

Choosing a deployment

The weights are downloadable under MIT. Check runtime support and size the complete model and working context for your expected concurrency.

Frequently asked questions

It predicts action instructions. The Fara CLI or MagenticLite harness supplies the browser and executes those actions.

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