Model Detail

SmolVLM-256M-Instruct is a multimodal model with 128M parameters released by HuggingFaceTB. The model is registered under the image-text-to-text pipeline tag on Hugging Face, distributed under the permissive apache-2.0 license.

SmolVLM-256M-Instruct ships with 128M parameters. The apache-2.0 license is permissive, allowing commercial deployment and derivative work without per-seat fees, though attribution requirements still apply.

SmolVLM-256M-Instruct is best fit for mixed text-and-image reasoning tasks such as document understanding. Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.