whatmodel.sh / Functionary Small v3.1

Functionary Small v3.1 is an open-weights language model from MeetKai, released July 2024. Its published size is 8.03B parameters. Licence: mit.

Catalogue identity notes

Maker repo meetkai/functionary-small-v3.1 @8e43bc1: licence tag mit. 8,030,261,248 parameters from the Hugging Face safetensors metadata (dense, so active = total). Released 2024-07: month the maker's Hugging Face repo was created (createdAt 2024-07-26).

52.9±6.4#374 of 949 LLMsfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Functionary Small v3.1, out of 1132 with a score, then more from MeetKai.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
485Jamba 1.6 Mini AI21 Labs53±10local~34GB2025-02
486Olmo 3 7B Think Ai253±1local~5.8GB2025-11
487Functionary Small v3.1 MeetKai53±6local~6.6GB2024-07
488GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI53±1api $0.17/M2025-04
489Gemini 1.5 Flash (002) Google53±1comparison only2024-09
more from MeetKai
341Functionary Medium v3.1 MeetKai58±7local~29GB2024-08

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▄▄▃▂▁ #250 of 334 * · 82% of its score · 1 test

Beats o3-mini, Nova 2 Lite, Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails SmolLM3 3B, Phi-3.5-mini-instruct, Jamba 1.5 Mini here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
BFCL v356.0% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▃▅█▅▄▁▁ beats 61/114medium · avg 52%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 82%blunt · at its level

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

version

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run Functionary Small v3.1 · needs ~4.9 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf bartowski/functionary-small-v3.1-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf bartowski/functionary-small-v3.1-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run Functionary Small v3.1 · needs ~4.9 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/bartowski/functionary-small-v3.1-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

version

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run Functionary Small v3.1 · needs ~4.9 GB · from huggingface.co/bartowski
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run hf.co/bartowski/functionary-small-v3.1-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~16.06 GB · from huggingface.co/meetkai (official)
    uv run --with torch --with 'transformers<5' --with accelerate python -c "from transformers import pipeline; print(pipeline('text-generation', model='meetkai/functionary-small-v3.1', torch_dtype='auto', device_map='auto', trust_remote_code=True)('Once upon a time', max_new_tokens=40)[0]['generated_text'])"

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/meetkai ↗

$ how the score was worked out · Berkeley Function Calling Lea… 82%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard result archive1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 82%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇▇▇▇▇ 18%
weighted average= 52.9

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