Instructions to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4 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", 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 AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4 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"
# 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",
		"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

SGLang

How to use openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4 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" \
    --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",
		"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" \
        --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",
		"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 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4
```

License?

by merve - opened Aug 5, 2025

Discussion

merve

Aug 5, 2025

Congrats on the release 🔥
Can you clarify the license? 👀

tc-mb

OpenBMB org Aug 5, 2025

The code in this repo is released under the Apache-2.0 License.
The usage of MiniCPM-V series model weights must strictly follow MiniCPM Model License.md.
The models and weights of MiniCPM are completely free for academic research. After filling out a "questionnaire" for registration, MiniCPM-V 2.6 weights are also available for free commercial use.

tc-mb

OpenBMB org Aug 5, 2025

https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4#license

Enigrand

Aug 6, 2025

https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/blob/main/MiniCPM%20Model%20License.md

File not found. Please fix the license file.

tc-mb

OpenBMB org Aug 6, 2025

@Enigrand Thanks for the heads-up. This was an error on our part. Apologies again.
I'll update it as soon as possible.

tc-mb

OpenBMB org Aug 12, 2025

@Enigrand Sorry it's been a while, but it's updated now.

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