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microsoft/fara

Fara1.5 – A family of frontier computer use agent models observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/microsoft/fara · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

58/100

  • Activity 93
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 22

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 308
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 42
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

6153 stars · 601 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Fara1.5 is a family of open-weight computer use agent (CUA) models from Microsoft Research, released at 4B, 9B, and 27B scales and built on Qwen3.5. The repository includes model weights, an evaluation harness with benchmarks like WebTailBench and CUAVerifierBench, and a Universal Verifier for judging agent trajectories.

Use cases

  • automate browser tasks with an AI agent
  • run a computer use agent model locally
  • evaluate web agent performance on benchmarks
  • score agent trajectories with a verifier judge
  • download open-weight CUA models from Hugging Face
  • benchmark web automation agents on Online-Mind2Web

When to choose

  • you need an open-weight model that can control a browser or computer to complete tasks
  • you want state-of-the-art small-model web agent performance with reproducible evaluation tooling
  • you are researching computer use agents and need benchmark datasets and verifiers

When to avoid

  • you need a simple RPA tool without GPU hardware or ML infrastructure
  • you want a hosted no-code automation product rather than models and evaluation code
  • your use case is desktop-only GUI automation outside web browsing

Facets

library · maturity active

agent-framework machine-learning llm-inference benchmarking web-scraping artificial-intelligence large-language-models developer-tools python cross-platform computer-use-agent browser-automation cua model-weights webtailbench qwen huggingface ai-agents automation gpu

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Member repositories

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microsoft/faramain58

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