Every model you can call through the Fanar API, the Fanar release that introduced it, and what replaced the models we have retired.
Fanar ships as a platform release about once a year. Each release adds new models and upgrades existing ones, so one release can contain models from several families.
New so far: Shaheen translation, Aura transcription, live or from a file, and Aura diarization: who spoke when. Full release notes when Fanar 3.0 launches.
Models so far
A 27B model that reasons in Arabic and English, plus Sadiq for Islamic questions, Oryx image understanding and generation, the Aura speech family, Shaheen translation, Diwan poetry, FanarGuard moderation and a tool-calling model.
Models in this release
Fanar Star (7B, trained from scratch) and Fanar Prime (8.7B), with dialect-aware speech recognition, text-to-speech, image generation, translation and Islamic RAG, coordinated by one orchestrator.
Models in this release
Grouped by family. Which models you can use depends on your API key: the API's List Models call returns the ones it has. A deprecated model still answers, and its responses name the model to move to.
How to read a model name
From Fanar 3.0, a model's name starts with its release: Fanar-3.0-Shaheen-Translate is the Shaheen family's translation model in Fanar 3.0. Earlier models keep their names, where the number counts versions within the family.
State-of-the-art family of Arabic LLMs.
| Model | What it does | Release | Since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fanar | Routes each request to the right Fanar model or service, with safety checks. | Fanar 1.0 | Jan 2025 | Live |
| Fanar-S-1-7B | Fanar Star: a 7B model trained from scratch on Arabic, English and code. | Fanar 1.0 | Nov 2024 | Live |
| Fanar-C-1-8.7B | Fanar Prime: an 8.7B model continually pre-trained from Gemma-2-9B on Arabic, English and code. | Fanar 1.0 | Nov 2024 | Live |
| Fanar-C-2-27B | A 27B model built on Gemma 3 that reasons in Arabic and English, with optional thinking, a 32K context window and tool calling. | Fanar 2.0 | Sep 2025 | Live |
| Fanar-2.0-Tools | Fanar-C-1-8.7B extended for tool calling: it picks which of your tools to call, and with what arguments. | Fanar 2.0 | Oct 2026 | Live |
Islamic model that responds to Islamic queries with precision.
| Model | What it does | Release | Since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fanar-Sadiq | Answers Islamic questions from authoritative sources, with references. | Fanar 2.0 | Sep 2025 | Live |
| Fanar-Sadiq-2 | Routes each Islamic question to a specialised module: cited fiqh answers, exact Quran verse lookup with quotation checks, zakat and inheritance calculators, and deep research. | Fanar 2.0 | May 2026 | Live |
| Fanar-Sadiq-TTS-1 | Reads Quranic text aloud in the voice of a reciter you choose. | Fanar 2.0 | Dec 2025 | Live |
| Islamic-RAG | The Fanar 1.0 Islamic RAG, now Fanar-Sadiq. Calls under this name still work and are answered by Fanar-Sadiq. | Fanar 1.0 | Jan 2025 | RenamedSep 2025 |
Culturally-aware image generation and image / video understanding.
| Model | What it does | Release | Since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fanar-Oryx-IVU-2 | Arabic and English image and video understanding, culturally aware and able to read Arabic calligraphy. | Fanar 2.0 | Oct 2025 | Live |
| Fanar-Oryx-IG-2 | Text-to-image generation tuned for Arabic, Islamic and regional subjects. | Fanar 2.0 | Oct 2025 | Live |
| Fanar-Oryx-IVU-1 | First version of image and video understanding. Replaced by Fanar-Oryx-IVU-2. | Fanar 2.0 | Jun 2025 | RetiredOct 2025 |
| Fanar-ImageGen-1 | The Fanar 1.0 image generation model, regionally fine-tuned. Replaced by Fanar-Oryx-IG-2. | Fanar 1.0 | Feb 2025 | RetiredOct 2025 |
LLM-powered Arabic ↔ English translation with dialectal support.
| Model | What it does | Release | Since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fanar-Shaheen-MT-1 | LLM-based Arabic ↔ English translation. Being replaced by Fanar-3.0-Shaheen-Translate. | Fanar 2.0 | May 2025 | DeprecatedOct 2026 |
| Fanar-3.0-Shaheen-Translate | Shaheen's latest Arabic ↔ English translation model. | Fanar 3.0 | Oct 2026 | Live |
Dialectal audio understanding and generation.
| Model | What it does | Release | Since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fanar-Aura-STT-1 | Bilingual, dialect-aware speech recognition for short recordings. Being replaced by Fanar-3.0-Aura-Transcribe. | Fanar 1.0 | Feb 2025 | DeprecatedOct 2026 |
| Fanar-Aura-STT-LF-1 | Long-form Arabic and English transcription of meetings, lectures and podcasts, with optional speaker separation. Being replaced by Fanar-3.0-Aura-Transcribe. | Fanar 2.0 | May 2025 | DeprecatedOct 2026 |
| Fanar-Aura-TTS-2 | Expressive Arabic and English speech, with voice personalisation from a few seconds of audio. | Fanar 2.0 | Nov 2025 | Live |
| Fanar-3.0-Aura-Transcribe | Transcription live while you speak, or of a recorded file of any length. | Fanar 3.0 | Oct 2026 | Live |
| Fanar-3.0-Aura-Diarize | Who spoke when in a recording: speaker turns, without a transcript. | Fanar 3.0 | Oct 2026 | Live |
| Fanar-Aura-TTS-1 | The Fanar 1.0 Arabic and English text-to-speech model. Replaced by Fanar-Aura-TTS-2. | Fanar 1.0 | Feb 2025 | RetiredNov 2025 |
Arabic poetry generation.
| Model | What it does | Release | Since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fanar-Diwan | Classical Arabic poetry that keeps the metre (Buhur), rhyme (Qafiyah) and prosody (Arud). | Fanar 2.0 | Sep 2025 | Live |
Culturally aware safety and moderation.
| Model | What it does | Release | Since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fanar-Guard-2 | Scores prompts and responses for harmlessness and Arabic cultural alignment. | Fanar 2.0 | Nov 2025 | Live |
A retired model answers with an error that names its replacement. A renamed model keeps working under its old name and is answered by the new one.
| Model | From | Retired | Use instead | If you call it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fanar-Oryx-IVU-1 | Fanar 2.0 | Oct 2025 | Fanar-Oryx-IVU-2 | Error, names the replacement |
| Fanar-ImageGen-1 | Fanar 1.0 | Oct 2025 | Fanar-Oryx-IG-2 | Error, names the replacement |
| Fanar-Aura-TTS-1 | Fanar 1.0 | Nov 2025 | Fanar-Aura-TTS-2 | Error, names the replacement |
| Islamic-RAG | Fanar 1.0 | Renamed Sep 2025 | Fanar-Sadiq | Still works |