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xLAM-2-3b-fc-r is an open-weights language model from Salesforce, released March 2025. Its published size is 3.09B parameters. Licence: cc-by-nc-4.0.

Catalogue identity notes

Maker repo Salesforce/xLAM-2-3b-fc-r @be83286: licence tag cc-by-nc-4.0. 3,085,938,688 parameters from the Hugging Face safetensors metadata (dense, so active = total). Released 2025-03: month the maker's Hugging Face repo was created (createdAt 2025-03-27).

57.5±3.9#267 of 949 LLMsfrom 2 benchmark results across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of xLAM-2-3b-fc-r, out of 1132 with a score, then more from Salesforce.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
348Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 Mistral58±1local~10GB2025-12
349Step 2 16K Experimental (2024-12) StepFun58±3comparison only
350xLAM-2-3b-fc-r Salesforce58±4local~3.5GB2025-03
351MedGemma 27B Text IT Google58±4local~18GB2025-05
352GPT-4o (2024-08-06) OpenAI57±1api $4.38/M2024-08
more from Salesforce
165xLAM-2-32b-fc-r Salesforce66±4local~21GB2025-03
170Llama-xLAM-2-70b-fc-r Salesforce66±4local~29GB2025-03
256Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r Salesforce62±4local~6.6GB2025-03

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▄▄▃▂▁ #197 of 334 * · 93% of its score · 2 tests

Beats o1 (2024-12-17), o3-mini, DeepSeek R1 0528 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails SmolLM3 3B, Jamba 1.5 Mini, Mellum2 12B-A2.5B Instruct here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
BFCL V4 (December 2025 archive)41.2% ✎▁▁▁▂██▅▅▆▂▂▂ beats 46/77hard · avg 32%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 65%at its level
BFCL v364.8% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▃▅█▅▄▁▁ beats 97/114medium · avg 52%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 28%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 xLAM-2-3b-fc-r · needs ~1.9 GB · from huggingface.co/Salesforce (official)
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf Salesforce/xLAM-2-3b-fc-r-gguf:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf Salesforce/xLAM-2-3b-fc-r-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 xLAM-2-3b-fc-r · needs ~1.9 GB · from huggingface.co/Salesforce (official)

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/xLAM-2-3b-fc-r-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 xLAM-2-3b-fc-r · needs ~1.9 GB · from huggingface.co/Salesforce (official)
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run hf.co/Salesforce/xLAM-2-3b-fc-r-gguf:Q4_K_M

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~6.17 GB · from huggingface.co/Salesforce (official)
    uv run --with torch --with 'transformers<5' --with accelerate python -c "from transformers import pipeline; print(pipeline('text-generation', model='Salesforce/xLAM-2-3b-fc-r', torch_dtype='auto', device_map='auto')('Once upon a time', max_new_tokens=40)[0]['generated_text'])"

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/Salesforce ↗

$ how the score was worked out · Berkeley Function Calling Lea… 93%

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 archive2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 93%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇ 7%
weighted average= 57.5

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