What are the hardware requirements for Falcon H1 7B Base?

Falcon H1 7B Base requires approximately 15.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Falcon H1 7B Base and how large is it?

Falcon H1 7B Base is developed by tiiuae, a model with 7b 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 H1 7B Base?

Falcon H1 7B Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Falcon H1 7B Base by tiiuae — VRAM 15.2GB, 256K context

Name: Falcon H1 7B Base
Author: tiiuae

Falcon H1 7B Base is an open-source language model by tiiuae. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 15.2GB, Context: 256K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon-H1-7B-Base

Falcon H1 7B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Falcon H1 7B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon-H1-7B-Base
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	15.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	tiiuae
Model Type	falcon_h1
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 4.5 GB: 3-of-4 0.8 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	ar cs de en es fr hi it ja ko nl pl pt ro ru sv ur zh
Model Architecture	FalconH1ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.52.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	130048
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Falcon H1 7B Base

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Falcon H1R 7B	256K / 15.3 GB	2573	221
Falcon H1 7B Instruct	256K / 15.2 GB	14904	35
Falcon H1R 7B FP8	256K / 8.4 GB	53	4
Falcon H1R 7B Bf16	256K / 15.1 GB	44	1
Falcon H1 7B Instruct	256K / 15.2 GB	32	1
Falcon H1R 7B 4bit	256K / 4.3 GB	156	2
...alcon H1 7B Instruct GPTQ Int8	8K / 10.3 GB	10	2

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