Instructions to use Cloudflare/clef-flash with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Cloudflare/clef-flash with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="Cloudflare/clef-flash")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Cloudflare/clef-flash")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("Cloudflare/clef-flash", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use Cloudflare/clef-flash with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Cloudflare/clef-flash"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Cloudflare/clef-flash",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Cloudflare/clef-flash

SGLang

How to use Cloudflare/clef-flash with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "Cloudflare/clef-flash" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Cloudflare/clef-flash",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "Cloudflare/clef-flash" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Cloudflare/clef-flash",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use Cloudflare/clef-flash with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Cloudflare/clef-flash
```

Smaller GGUF for stock llama.cpp (4.9 GB)

by mike18 - opened 14 days ago

Discussion

mike18

14 days ago

Hi, we've published GGUF builds of Clef-Flash that load in stock llama-server (llama.cpp from 9 October 2026 or newer) and answer on /v1/systemone:
https://huggingface.co/turintech/Clef-Flash-Artemis-GGUF

The default file is 4.9 GB against 18.2 GB for the BF16 and needs 5.5 GiB of GPU memory instead of 16.5 GiB (NVIDIA A100). It gives the same answer as the original on 95.0% of 2,000 test decisions on CPU (94.1% on the A100). The card also has held-out results, image tests and the public files on the same tests (the ggml-org Q4_K_M at 6.49 GB gives the same answer 96.5% of the time; the IQ3_M at 4.85 GB 89.5%).

These are independent conversions by TurinTech, not affiliated with Cloudflare. Thanks for releasing Clef-Flash under Apache-2.0. Happy to answer questions here.

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