needle3 is a language model from Cactus Compute. It stays unranked until ModelCap confirms it as an official publisher release. Its weights are openly downloadable.
Figures as of 23 Sept 2026, 20:40 UTC · download the public dataset · methodology
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Providers
Uptime measured over the last 30 minutesCurrent provider status is unavailable.
Deployment readiness
Metadata index- Artifact reproducibility
- 50.0
- Access & legal clarity
- 100.0
- Deployability
- 8.0
- Evaluation provenance
- 0.0
Not yet published: a parameter count, safetensors weight metadata, the base model it derives from, a current serving provider, measured provider uptime, published provider pricing, declared context and output limits, admitted benchmark results, results across several capability areas, results from more than one source, a confident match to its benchmark entries, pinned evaluation dataset versions.
A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.
Market activity
Venue coverage- Market Gravity
- 17.7
- OpenRouter weekly popularity
- Not listed
Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.
Market Gravity breakdown
- Usage55%
- 0.0
- Liquidity25%
- 0.0
- Open reach15%
- 85.7
- Freshness5%
- 97.2
OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.
Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.
Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.
Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.
Specification
- Model ID
Cactus-Compute/needle3- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Cached input tokens
- Not offered
- First seen on OpenRouter
- 16 Sept 2026
Capabilities
- Not supported: Reasoning
- Not supported: Tool use
- Not supported: Structured output
- Not supported: Response format
- Not supported: Moderated
Weights & access
Open weights. Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI.
- Access
- Open weights
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Pinned revision
- b274efcb211a
- Architecture
- NeedleForToolCalling
- Model type
- needle
- Hugging Face downloads (30d)
- 62K
- Downloads (all time)
- 62K
- Likes
- 200
- Repository
- Cactus-Compute/needle3
- Repository updated
- 19 Sept 2026, 18:59 UTC