needle3
Open-weights text model from Cactus-Compute on Hugging Face (apache-2.0).
Model by Cactus-Compute
IndexedApache-2.0
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About
Cactus-Compute/needle3 is an open-weights text-generation model published on Hugging Face by Cactus-Compute. License: apache-2.0. 110,717 downloads in the last 30 days.
Use cases: model-inference
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Price and limits
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- Provider
- Cactus-Compute
- Model id
Cactus-Compute/needle3- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Weights
- Open: Cactus-Compute/needle3
- License
- apache-2.0
- Downloads
- 110,717 in the last 30 days (Hugging Face)
- Released
- Sep 16, 2026
Signals
- Hugging Face likes
- 361
- Last release
- Oct 19, 2026 (9 days ago)
From Hugging Face.
Details
- License
- Apache-2.0
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- Hugging Face
Cite this page
needle3: price, context window, tool use. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/models/cactus-compute-needle3 (last updated 2026-10-24)