# Cloudflare's Clef, a 27-billion-parameter model that returns probabilities instead of text, reaches Ollama

Clef is built on Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B with an added schema head and scores up to 64 typed questions in one forward pass under an Apache 2.0 license.

- Published: 2026-10-20T06:12:48.347Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-10-20/cloudflare-s-clef-a-27-billion-parameter-model-that-returns
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Ollama](https://ollama.com/blog/clef)

Clef, a 27-billion-parameter multimodal "decision model" from Cloudflare, is now available on Ollama to run locally or on Ollama's cloud. Cloudflare released it on October 1 under the Apache 2.0 license, MindStudio reported. Clef does not g…

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