fara

About fara

Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model (SLM) designed specifically for computer use. With only 7 billion parameters, Fara-7B is an ultra-compact Computer Use Agent (CUA) that achieves state-of-the-art performance within its size class and is competitive with larger, more resource-intensive agentic systems.

Try Fara-7B locally as follows (see Installation for detailed instructions on Windows ) or via Magentic-UI:

To try Fara-7B inside Magentic-UI, please follow the instructions here Magentic-UI + Fara-7B. You will need to serve the model as before, but instead of fara-cli you can use Magentic-UI which has a nice UI (see video demos below).

From the project's README

fara is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 6.1k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in July 2026.