What are the hardware requirements for Falcon E 3B Instruct?

Falcon E 3B Instruct requires approximately 1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Falcon E 3B Instruct and how large is it?

Falcon E 3B Instruct is developed by tiiuae, a model with 3b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Falcon E 3B Instruct?

Falcon E 3B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Falcon E 3B Instruct by tiiuae — VRAM 1GB, 32K context

Name: Falcon E 3B Instruct
Author: tiiuae

Falcon E 3B Instruct is an open-source language model by tiiuae. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 1GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon-E-3B-Instruct

Falcon E 3B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Falcon E 3B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon-E-3B-Instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-05-30
Maintainer	tiiuae
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.0 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.47.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32768
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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