Needle
Needle is available now for agents and json / tool use with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating agents and json / tool use
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Teams that need a tracked hosted API route today
Cactus Compute, Inc. builds automation foundation models for tiny devices (mobiles, wearables, smart home, robots, micro
WebsiteNo tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
Original Needle (catalog slug needle-1) is Cactus Compute's first open ~26M-parameter function-calling model (first-party blog 2026-05-12 + HF Cactus-Compute/needle). Distilled Gemini tool-calling into a Simple Attention Network for consumer devices. License note: May 2026 blog states Apache 2.0; HF cardData/tags currently license:mit and no LICENSE sibling file — EIC should confirm which governs weights; packet leaves licenseSlug empty on this row and documents conflict (do not invent resolution). Context not verified for seed. INSERT sibling under family needle. Compare it for Open Source / Agents / on-device.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Agents
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
needleneedle-1Cactus Compute, Inc. builds automation foundation models for tiny devices (mobiles, wearables, smart home, robots, micro
WebsiteNo tracked provider token pricing is available yet.