sglang/docs/supported_models/vision_language_models.md

Vision Language Models

These models accept multi-modal inputs (e.g., images and text) and generate text output. They augment language models with visual encoders and require a specific chat template for handling vision prompts.

Example launch Command

python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
  --model-path meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct \  # example HF/local path
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 30000 \

Supporting Matrixs

Model Family (Variants)	Example HuggingFace Identifier	Chat Template	Description
Qwen-VL (Qwen2 series)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct	qwen2-vl	Alibaba’s vision-language extension of Qwen; for example, Qwen2.5-VL (7B and larger variants) can analyze and converse about image content.
DeepSeek-VL2	deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2	deepseek-vl2	Vision-language variant of DeepSeek (with a dedicated image processor), enabling advanced multimodal reasoning on image and text inputs.
Janus-Pro (1B, 7B)	deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B	janus-pro	DeepSeek’s open-source multimodal model capable of both image understanding and generation. Janus-Pro employs a decoupled architecture for separate visual encoding paths, enhancing performance in both tasks.
MiniCPM-V / MiniCPM-o	openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2_6	minicpmv	MiniCPM-V (2.6, ~8B) supports image inputs, and MiniCPM-o adds audio/video; these multimodal LLMs are optimized for end-side deployment on mobile/edge devices.
Llama 3.2 Vision (11B)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct	llama_3_vision	Vision-enabled variant of Llama 3 (11B) that accepts image inputs for visual question answering and other multimodal tasks.
LLaVA (v1.5 & v1.6)	e.g. liuhaotian/llava-v1.5-13b	vicuna_v1.1	Open vision-chat models that add an image encoder to LLaMA/Vicuna (e.g. LLaMA2 13B) for following multimodal instruction prompts.
LLaVA-NeXT (8B, 72B)	lmms-lab/llava-next-72b	chatml-llava	Improved LLaVA models (with an 8B Llama3 version and a 72B version) offering enhanced visual instruction-following and accuracy on multimodal benchmarks.
LLaVA-OneVision	lmms-lab/llava-onevision-qwen2-7b-ov	chatml-llava	Enhanced LLaVA variant integrating Qwen as the backbone; supports multiple images (and even video frames) as inputs via an OpenAI Vision API-compatible format.
Gemma 3 (Multimodal)	google/gemma-3-4b-it	gemma-it	Gemma 3’s larger models (4B, 12B, 27B) accept images (each image encoded as 256 tokens) alongside text in a combined 128K-token context.
Kimi-VL (A3B)	moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct	kimi-vl	Kimi-VL is a multimodal model that can understand and generate text from images.