llama.cpp/docs/multimodal.md

Multimodal

llama.cpp supports multimodal input via libmtmd. Currently, there are 2 tools support this feature:

• llama-mtmd-cli
• llama-server via OpenAI-compatible /chat/completions API

Currently, we support image and audio input. Audio is highly experimental and may have reduced quality.

To enable it, you can use one of the 2 methods below:

• Use -hf option with a supported model (see a list of pre-quantized model below)
  • To load a model using -hf while disabling multimodal, use --no-mmproj
  • To load a model using -hf while using a custom mmproj file, use --mmproj local_file.gguf
• Use -m model.gguf option with --mmproj file.gguf to specify text and multimodal projector respectively

By default, multimodal projector will be offloaded to GPU. To disable this, add --no-mmproj-offload

For example:

# simple usage with CLI
llama-mtmd-cli -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF

# simple usage with server
llama-server -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF

# using local file
llama-server -m gemma-3-4b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf --mmproj mmproj-gemma-3-4b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf

# no GPU offload
llama-server -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF --no-mmproj-offload

Pre-quantized models

These are ready-to-use models, most of them come with Q4_K_M quantization by default. They can be found at the Hugging Face page of the ggml-org: https://huggingface.co/ggml-org

Replaces the (tool_name) with the name of binary you want to use. For example, llama-mtmd-cli or llama-server

NOTE: some models may require large context window, for example: -c 8192

Vision models:

# Gemma 3
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-12b-it-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF

# SmolVLM
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct-GGUF

# Pixtral 12B
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/pixtral-12b-GGUF

# Qwen 2 VL
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-GGUF

# Qwen 2.5 VL
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct-GGUF

# Mistral Small 3.1 24B (IQ2_M quantization)
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-GGUF

# InternVL 2.5 and 3
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/InternVL2_5-1B-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/InternVL2_5-4B-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/InternVL3-1B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/InternVL3-2B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/InternVL3-8B-Instruct-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/InternVL3-14B-Instruct-GGUF

# Llama 4 Scout
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-GGUF

Audio models:

# Ultravox 0.5
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/ultravox-v0_5-llama-3_2-1b-GGUF
(tool_name) -hf ggml-org/ultravox-v0_5-llama-3_1-8b-GGUF