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| Description | Pull a model from Docker Hub or HuggingFace to your local environment | | Usage | docker model pull MODEL |

Description ​

Pull a model to your local environment. Downloaded models also appear in the Docker Desktop Dashboard.

Examples ​

Pulling a model from Docker Hub ​

console
docker model pull ai/smollm2

Pulling from HuggingFace ​

You can pull GGUF models directly from Hugging Face.

Note about quantization: If no tag is specified, the command tries to pull the Q4_K_M version of the model. If Q4_K_M doesn't exist, the command pulls the first GGUF found in the Files view of the model on HuggingFace. To specify the quantization, provide it as a tag, for example: docker model pull hf.co/bartowski/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_S

console
docker model pull hf.co/bartowski/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-GGUF