Instructions to use allenai/MolmoWeb-4B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use allenai/MolmoWeb-4B with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="allenai/MolmoWeb-4B", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("allenai/MolmoWeb-4B", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use allenai/MolmoWeb-4B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "allenai/MolmoWeb-4B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "allenai/MolmoWeb-4B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/allenai/MolmoWeb-4B

SGLang

How to use allenai/MolmoWeb-4B with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "allenai/MolmoWeb-4B" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "allenai/MolmoWeb-4B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "allenai/MolmoWeb-4B" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "allenai/MolmoWeb-4B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use allenai/MolmoWeb-4B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/allenai/MolmoWeb-4B
```

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 ## License and Use
-This model is licensed under Apache 2.0. It is intended for research and educational use in accordance with Ai2’s [Responsible Use Guidelines](https://allenai.org/responsible-use).

 ## License and Use
+This model is licensed under Apache 2.0. It is intended for research and educational use in accordance with Ai2’s [Responsible Use Guidelines](https://allenai.org/responsible-use).
+## Citation
+If you use this dataset, please cite:
+[arXiv:2604.08516](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08516)
+```bibtex
+@misc{gupta2026molmowebopenvisualweb,
+      title={MolmoWeb: Open Visual Web Agent and Open Data for the Open Web},
+      author={Tanmay Gupta and Piper Wolters and Zixian Ma and Peter Sushko and Rock Yuren Pang and Diego Llanes and Yue Yang and Taira Anderson and Boyuan Zheng and Zhongzheng Ren and Harsh Trivedi and Taylor Blanton and Caleb Ouellette and Winson Han and Ali Farhadi and Ranjay Krishna},
+      year={2026},
+      eprint={2604.08516},
+      archivePrefix={arXiv},
+      primaryClass={cs.CV},
+      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08516},
+}