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CategorySmall Language Model
About Needle
Needle is an experimental 26 million parameter function-calling model from Cactus Compute. It is optimized for single-shot tool calls on small consumer devices and open weights are available on Hugging Face.
Capabilities
texttool usefunction callingon device
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
texttool-call
Technical Details
- API Identifier
- Cactus-Compute/needle
- Category
- Small Language Model
Tags
function-callingtool-useon-device-aiopen-weightsedge-ai
Pricing and access
Open weights/self-hosted; hosted provider pricing is not applicable. Context window was not stated in verified sources as of 2026-05-14.
Cactus Computestartup
On-device AI with cloud fallback
6 MCP Servers2 ModelsFounded 2023San Francisco, United States
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| Model | Context Window | Price (In / Out per M) |
|---|---|---|
| Cactus Needle 2Current | -- | -- / -- |
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