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CogACT

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Facts

Released
2024-12 1 Source
Parameters
Unverified 0 Source
Architecture
VLM + action expert 0 Source
License
MIT (code, weights and data all MIT, per README) 2 Source
Commercial
Commercial use OK 0 Source
Weights
huggingface.co ↗ 1 Source
Code
github.com ↗ 1 Source
Paper
arxiv.org ↗ 0 Source
Input modalities
rgb · language 0 Source
Action space
7-DoF end-effector pose delta + gripper (diffusion, 16-step action chunks) 0 Source
Cross-embodiment
Open X-Embodiment pretraining 0 Source
Pretraining data (hours)
Unverified 0 Source
Target forms
Single arm 0 Source
Architecture · VLM backbone (prism-dinosiglip-224px) + DiT diffusion action module (three sizes DiT-S/B/L); outputs 16 steps of 7-DoF actions at once
Sources · 2 sources
license,release_date,arch_notes,code_url https://github.com/microsoft/CogACT Official page · Fetched 2026-09-04 · No snapshot stored yet README:released 2024-12-01;All the code, model weights, and data are licensed under MIT license;CogACT-Small/Base/Large,DiT-S/B/L
weights_url,license https://huggingface.co/api/models/CogACT/CogACT-Base Model hub page · Fetched 2026-09-04 · No snapshot stored yet Model card license: mit; createdAt 2024-11-29

Activity signals

Public counters fetched daily from GitHub, Hugging Face and ModelScope. Numbers only; no judgement. · fetched 2026-10-31

GitHub stars
434
+2 / 30 d
Commits · 90 d
0
last push 367 d ago
HF downloads · 30 d
1,711
all-time 80,220 · 19 likes
Weights last modified
2024-12-04
697 d ago
GitHubmicrosoft/CogACT · 42 forks · 9 open issues · no GitHub releaseno push for 366 d
ModelScopeno same-name mirror found (searched by repo name)
Hugging FaceCogACT/CogACT-Base
stars · last 30 d

Public benchmark scores

As printed in the source; protocols differ between papers. Full table with notes on the benchmarks page.

BenchmarkSubsetScoreSource
Real-robot evaluation (self-reported)franka_4_tasks_avg61.4paper · Table 6 (real robot, Franka), row 'CogACT', Average
Real-robot evaluation (self-reported)realman_arm_pick_stack_place_overall_avg71.2paper · Table 3 (real robot, Realman), row 'CogACT', Overall Avg
SimplerEnv · Google RobotCogACT-Base (DiT-Base action module)variant_aggregation61.3paper · Table 1 (Variant Aggregation), row 'CogACT', Average
SimplerEnv · Google RobotCogACT-Large (DiT-Large, 308M)variant_aggregation59.3paper · Table 7, row 'DiT-Large', Google VA
SimplerEnv · Google RobotCogACT-Base (DiT-Base action module)visual_matching74.8paper · Table 1 (Visual Matching), row 'CogACT', Average
SimplerEnv · Google RobotCogACT-Large (DiT-Large, 308M)visual_matching76.7paper · Table 7 (action model scaling), row 'DiT-Large', Google VM
SimplerEnv · Google RobotCogACT-Small (DiT-Small, 13M)visual_matching73.3paper · Table 7, row 'DiT-Small', Google VM
SimplerEnv · WidowX (Bridge)CogACT-Base (DiT-Base action module)visual_matching51.3paper · Table 2 (WidowX robot), row 'CogACT', Average
SimplerEnv · WidowX (Bridge)CogACT-Large (DiT-Large, 308M)visual_matching58.3paper · Table 7, row 'DiT-Large', WidowX VM
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Deployment recipe

No recipe yet. We publish only steps that actually ran on a rented GPU with a measured latency; this model has not been through that yet.

Record history

2026-09-04
Sources fetched
license,release_date,arch_notes,code_url · weights_url,license

Latency & cost

cost = p50 ms ÷ 1000 × rental ÷ 3600 × 1000
Hardwarep50 msp95 msPeak VRAMCost per 1k inferences ¥samples
NVIDIA RTX 4090
¥1.68/h · GongJi Compute (2026)
— — — — no latency data No data
NVIDIA RTX 5090
¥2.4/h · Runyun 2.4 / GongJi 2.5 / Paratera Cloud 2.98 (2026)
— — — — no latency data No data
NVIDIA A100 80GB
no rental price
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NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
no rental price
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NVIDIA H100 80GB
no rental price
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NVIDIA A800 80GB
no rental price
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No latency measurements for this model yet · Data comes from literature, maintainer runs, or crowd CLI uploads. None exist so far.

Compatibility

Colored only where we hold evidence. An amber dot means the vendor declares this form as a target; that is a claim, not a verified compatibility.

Unitree G1Unitree H1AgiBot Genie G1AgileX Piper armSO-101Franka FR3 / PandaFourier GR-2WidowX 250 SGoogle Robot(Everyday Robots)ALOHA 2 / Cobot Magic (dual-arm)Galaxea R1 ProFranka Emika Panda
CogACT
Legend Officially supportedCommunity reproducedFine-tunable in theoryUnsupportedUnknown Vendor-declared target form 3 / 12 cells with a definite status

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