fara
Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use
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).
fara is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 6.0k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in June 2026.
pip install -e .fara vs. the alternatives
All browser & computer use →| Agent | Stars | Pricing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fara | 6.0k | Python | MIT | Open source |
| UI-TARS-desktop | 38k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| skyvern | 22k | Python | AGPL-3.0 | Open source |
| page-agent | 22k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source |
| midscene | 14k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source |
| nanobrowser | 13k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
