Cloudflare Clef: Specs, License & How to Run
27B multimodal decision model that returns option probabilities in one forward pass.
TL;DR. Cloudflare Clef is a decision model from Cloudflare. Parameters: 27B.License: Apache-2.0. It is listed under LLM classification APIs.
| Developer | Cloudflare |
|---|---|
| Type | decision |
| Architecture | post-trained from Qwen3.8-27B |
| Parameters | 27B |
| Modalities | text, image, video, JSON |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Hardware | Not yet verified — Minimum VRAM not in the seed/verification extract. (not independently tested) |
| Hugging Face likes | 2,074 (as of 2026-10-13) |
| Model card | https://huggingface.co/Cloudflare/clef |
| First seen | 2026-09-30 |
Cloudflare Clef is a 27B multimodal decision model. It is listed as an alternative in our LLM classification APIs hub because it scores typed options instead of writing prose.
Specs we verified (2026-10-13)
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Cloudflare/clef
- 27B parameters; image-text-to-text decision setup
- Apache-2.0
- 2,074 likes
- Listed 2026-09-30
- Post-trained from Qwen3.8-27B
What it is for
Use it when the job is “pick among schema options with a probability,” including inputs that may be images or video. Do not treat this page as a serving cookbook: we have not independently run the weights.
Related
LiquidAI d1 is a smaller decision model on the watch list (verified but not given a page in this batch). Open chat-style models live under closed LLM APIs.
Deploy options
- local: Hugging Face model card
FAQ
Is Clef a chatbot?
No. The card describes a decision model: input text/JSON/image/video plus a question schema, one forward pass, per-option probabilities, no free-text generation.
What is it based on?
Post-trained from Qwen3.8-27B, according to the Hugging Face card (2026-10-13).
Is there a smaller variant?
The verification note mentions Clef-Flash. We do not have a separate sourced stats row for Flash.
What is the license?
Apache-2.0 on the card as of 2026-10-13. Not legal advice.
Sources & verification
License notes are not legal advice. Read the original LICENSE. Trademark & disclaimer.