Fara
MicrosoftFara is Microsoft's family of computer-use agent models, which look at webpages and act by scrolling, typing and clicking at predicted coordinates without accessibility trees. Fara1.5 comes in 4B, 9B and 27B sizes built on Qwen3.5 and trained on data from the FaraGen1.5 pipeline, and can pause to ask the user before irreversible actions. Fara-7B was the first release.
Openness
3 high confidence- weights
- open(on the Hub, ungated)
- data
- described(the roughly 2M-sample FaraGen1.5 training mix is broken down by task type
- code
- partial(agent runner, hosting instructions and the webeval benchmark harness
- license
- MIT(OSI
Fara's weights and code are MIT, and Microsoft publishes the tools to run and evaluate the agent. The FaraGen1.5 training data is described in detail but not released, and no training code is published.
- https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/fara@main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-27
The repository LICENSE is the MIT License, Copyright 2025 Microsoft
- https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/fara@main/README.md recorded 2026-09-27
"The resulting training mix contains roughly 2M samples: ~60% web trajectories, 12.8% synthetic environments ..."; sections cover installation, hosting and reproducing benchmarks
- https://data.jsdelivr.com/v1/packages/gh/microsoft/fara@main?structure=flat recorded 2026-09-27
Repository file list: docs, endpoint_configs, scripts, src, tests and webeval; no training or fine-tuning path
- https://huggingface.co/api/models/microsoft/Fara1.5-27B?expand[]=downloads&expand[]=cardData&expand[]=gated&expand[]=createdAt&expand[]=lastModified&expand[]=siblings recorded 2026-09-27
Hub metadata for Fara1.5-27B: gated false, card license mit, base model Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B
Adoption
2 high confidenceHugging Face downloads over the trailing 30 days, summed across Microsoft's five Fara checkpoints. Use through Microsoft Foundry hosting is not counted.
- https://huggingface.co/api/models?author=microsoft&search=Fara&limit=100 recorded 2026-09-27
Five Fara checkpoints with 16,142 downloads in the trailing 30 days; Fara-7B 9,808 and Fara1.5-27B 1,867
Capability
4 high confidenceFara completes multi-step web tasks by clicking, typing and scrolling on screenshots, and on Online-Mind2Web it scores above GPT-5 in Microsoft's own table. It is level with UI-TARS and, like it, takes no audio or video input.
- https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/fara@main/README.md recorded 2026-09-27
"Fara1.5 leverages computer interfaces—mouse and keyboard—to perform multi-step tasks"; Fara1.5-27B WebVoyager 89.3, Online-Mind2Web 72.3, WebTailBench v1.5 outcome 40.2; GPT-5 SoM 90.6, 57.7, 45.1
Verified 2026-09-27