SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct
PulseGate's liveness check found it on 14 Sep 2026; it is registered on Hugging Face and has been in the index since 5 Aug 2026. How this is checked
SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct is a small vision-language model developed by Hugging Face. It processes both text and images, supporting multimodal chat with a specialized tokenization and chat template for instruction following.
Inferred · not functionally tested
Overview
3 featuresPurpose: Enabling efficient multimodal understanding and instruction following on resource-constrained devices.
Inferred · not functionally tested
Audience: developers
Inferred · not functionally tested
Functions: Unknown
Interfaces: API: unknown · MCP: unknown · CLI: indicated (inferred, not tested) · Self-hosting: indicated (inferred, not tested)
Recorded constraints: pricing: open_source · license: Apache-2.0 · platforms: CLI, WEB · deployment: browser, cli, self_hosted
Constraint provenance is unknown; confirm requirements with the publisher.
Record sources: huggingface.co. These links do not verify the individual claims.
In the Multimodal & vision space, SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct takes a focused approach. Inferred · not functionally tested: It focuses on enabling efficient multimodal understanding and instruction following on resource-constrained devices. Inferred · not functionally tested: It is built as an open-source project for developers. Basis unknown · not verified: SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct is open source under the Apache-2.0 license. Basis unknown · not verified: It ships for the web and the command line, and it can be self-hosted.
It is developed by HuggingFaceTB, and it first shipped in 2024. Development happens publicly on GitHub with 3.9k stars. Inferred · not functionally tested: Among its 3 catalogued features are vision-Language, Image Understanding, and Instruction Following.
Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.
Tasks: Inferred · not functionally tested
- Vision-Language
- Image Understanding
- Instruction Following
Topics: Inferred · not functionally tested
Built with & integrations
- AWS
- x-amz-cf-id header · x-amz-cf-pop header · via header
- local_oss
- bollama in the HTML · bllama in the HTML · bvllm in the HTML
- meta_llama
- llama- in the HTML
Trust & compliance
Indexing history
1What PulseGate has recorded for this listing
- Indexed5 Aug · 08:37 UTCHuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct seen via Hugging Face EnumeratorSource: Hugging Face Enumerator · Open
Frequently asked questions about SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct
- What does SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct do?
- Inferred · not functionally tested: SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct focuses on enabling efficient multimodal understanding and instruction following on resource-constrained devices. It is catalogued under Multimodal & vision on PulseGate.
- Who should use SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct?
- Inferred · not functionally tested: SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct is an open-source project built for developers.
- Is SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct free?
- Basis unknown · not verified: Yes — SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct is open source under the Apache-2.0 license and free to use.
- What platforms does SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct run on?
- Basis unknown · not verified: SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct runs on the web and the command line. It can also be self-hosted.
- Is SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct still active?
- PulseGate's liveness check found it on 14 Sep 2026.
- What projects are similar to SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct?
- Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct, SmolLM2 1.7B, and SmolLM 1.7B.SmolLM2 1.7B InstructSmolLM2 1.7BSmolLM 1.7B
- Who makes SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct?
- SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct is developed by HuggingFaceTB.
- When did SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct launch?
- SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct first shipped in 2024.
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