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Salesforce Research
Multimodal model · United States ·May 2023

InstructBLIP

Multimodal Open Weights
13B
Parameters

About InstructBLIP

InstructBLIP is an AI model developed by Salesforce Research, in the multimodal category, released in 2023, made available as an open-weights model with 13B params.

On this page you'll find InstructBLIP's full specifications. Review provider pricing and benchmark scores below, or compare InstructBLIP head-to-head with other multimodal models.

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Links

Announcement ↗ Hugging Face ↗

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Sized to what InstructBLIP actually needs (~8k context at Q4), not to the biggest GPU: Good = cheapest that runs it, Better = best value, Best = most headroom. Speed is a hardware estimate; anything past ~120 tok/s is shown as instant.

Good
Intel Arc B580 12GB
Consumer GPU · ~$249
~45.1 tok/s
Q4 · fits full context · up to 8k ctx
Runs with: ExLlamaV2, KoboldCpp, LM Studio
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Better
Intel Arc A770 16GB
Consumer GPU · ~$329
~55.4 tok/s
Q4 · fits full context · up to 8k ctx
Runs with: ExLlamaV2, KoboldCpp, LM Studio
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Best
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Consumer GPU · ~$1,599
~120 tok/s
Q4 · fits full context · up to 8k ctx
Runs with: ExLlamaV2, KoboldCpp, LM Studio
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Software support

·ExLlamaV2 ·KoboldCpp ·LM Studio ·MLX ·Ollama ·SGLang ·TensorRT-LLM ·llama.cpp ·vLLM ?KTransformers ?text-generation-webui

✓ measured · · compatible · — not supported. Informational only — speed is hardware-based.

Consumer GPU
22.2–120+ tok/s
28 options →
Apple
33.8–90.1 tok/s
17 options →
Datacenter GPU
91.4–120+ tok/s
13 options →

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Frequently asked questions

What is InstructBLIP? ▶

InstructBLIP is an AI model developed by Salesforce Research, in the multimodal category, released in 2023. It is tracked on GenAIList with its specifications, benchmark scores and provider pricing.

Who created InstructBLIP? ▶

InstructBLIP was developed by Salesforce Research and released in 2023.

Is InstructBLIP open source or proprietary? ▶

InstructBLIP ships as an open-weights model: you can download and self-host the weights, though the licence may place some restrictions on use.

How much does InstructBLIP cost? ▶

Pricing for InstructBLIP depends on the provider. See the providers table on this page for the latest API rates.

How does InstructBLIP perform on benchmarks? ▶

Benchmark scores for InstructBLIP are listed on this page as they are published. You can compare it head-to-head with other models on the GenAIList compare tool.

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