Overview
A 1.3B-parameter language model that runs on a phone. Not the smartest bird in the flock, but fast, free, and honest about its limits.
BirdBrain Mini is part of our Artificial Intelligence line, and it plays nicely with Bawk-to-Text and Egg-stimator, so you can adopt it one perch at a time. Machine learning from a brain roughly the size of a walnut. Surprisingly capable.
Teams usually start with the free Chick plan, move to Hen when the flock grows past a handful, and graduate to Rooster once the security team wants audit logs. The upgrade is one click, and nobody needs to molt.
Key features
- Includes an evaluation harness that grades every answer on a scale of one to five feathers.
- Honest uncertainty: if the model is unsure, it says "bawk?" rather than hallucinating a goose.
- Guardrails prevent it from claiming to have crossed the road for a reason it cannot explain.
- BirdBrain Mini was trained on 40 terabytes of free-range text and one very long cookbook.
- Runs on a laptop, a phone, or a single heat-lamped GPU.
Specifications
| Parameters | 7 billion |
|---|---|
| Context window | 16K tokens |
| Latency | 700 ms to first peck |
| Training data | Free-range, organic |
| SKU | PS-AI-010 |
| Category | Artificial Intelligence |
| Released | 2024-05-08 |
| Current version | 4.9.1 |
Plans
Chick
Free
For one hen and a dream.
- 1 seat
- Community support
- Core features
- Watermarked with a tiny egg
Hen
$9/mo
For flocks that lay every day.
- Up to 25 seats
- Email and chat support
- Everything in Chick
- Integrations with the flock
Rooster
$36/mo
For the whole barnyard.
- Unlimited seats
- 24/7 clucking support
- SSO and audit logs
- A named support goose
Quick start
$ cluck install birdbrain-mini
$ cluck birdbrain-mini init --coop us-east-1
✔ BirdBrain Mini hatched in 4.1s
✔ Connected to coop us-east-1 (5 hens online)
Next: cluck birdbrain-mini --helpNeed more? The cluck install reference covers flags, and the getting started guide covers everything else.
What the flock says
It is, in the words of our CFO, "fine, actually good". We have it on tape.
My team likes it. My rooster-in-chief likes it. The fox on the board remains unconvinced.
I have been pecking at software for 20 years and this is the first time it pecked back, helpfully.
Frequently asked questions
Does BirdBrain Mini work with the rest of the Pollosoft flock?
Absolutely. Everything shares one identity (Cage-Free SSO), one billing account (BillOfLaying), and one deeply optimistic status page.
How often is BirdBrain Mini updated?
Every two weeks, on a Tuesday, shortly after the rooster crows. Release notes live in the changelog.
Where is my data stored?
In the coop you pick at sign-up. Data never leaves that region unless you tell it to. Chickens like to know where they live.