Instructions to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6 with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6")
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 AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6")
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?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6",
		"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/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6

SGLang

How to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6 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 "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6" \
    --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": "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6",
		"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 "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6" \
        --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": "openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6",
		"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 openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6
```

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@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ A Pocket-Sized MLLM for Ultra-Efficient Image and Video Understanding on Your Ph
 [GitHub](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-o) | [CookBook](https://github.com/OpenSQZ/MiniCPM-V-CookBook) | [Demo](https://huggingface.co/spaces/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6-Demo) |
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 ## MiniCPM-V 4.6
 **MiniCPM-V 4.6** is our most edge-deployment-friendly model to date. The model is built based on SigLIP2-400M and the Qwen3.5-0.8B LLM. It inherits the strong single-image, multi-image, and video understanding capabilities of MiniCPM-V family, while significantly improving computation efficiency. It also introduces mixed 4x/16x visual token compression. Notable features of MiniCPM-V 4.6 include:

 [GitHub](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-o) | [CookBook](https://github.com/OpenSQZ/MiniCPM-V-CookBook) | [Demo](https://huggingface.co/spaces/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6-Demo) |
 [Feishu (Lark)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openbmb/MiniCPM-V/main/assets/feishu_qrcode.png)
+## News
+* [2026.05.17] ⭐️⭐️⭐️ We release the API service of MiniCPM-V 4.6, with a **public free API key** together! Try [it](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-V/blob/main/docs/api.md) now.
 ## MiniCPM-V 4.6
 **MiniCPM-V 4.6** is our most edge-deployment-friendly model to date. The model is built based on SigLIP2-400M and the Qwen3.5-0.8B LLM. It inherits the strong single-image, multi-image, and video understanding capabilities of MiniCPM-V family, while significantly improving computation efficiency. It also introduces mixed 4x/16x visual token compression. Notable features of MiniCPM-V 4.6 include: