What are the hardware requirements for Falcon3 10B Instruct?

Falcon3 10B Instruct requires approximately 20.5 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 Falcon3 10B Instruct and how large is it?

Falcon3 10B Instruct is developed by tiiuae, a model with 10b 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 Falcon3 10B Instruct?

Falcon3 10B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Falcon3 10B Instruct by tiiuae — VRAM 20.5GB, 32K context

Name: Falcon3 10B Instruct
Author: tiiuae

Falcon3 10B Instruct is an open-source language model by tiiuae. Features: 10b LLM, VRAM: 20.5GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Base model:finetune:tiiuae/fal... Base model:tiiuae/falcon3-10b-... Conversational Deploy:sagemaker Endpoints compatible Falcon3 Instruct Llama Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Instruct

Falcon3 10B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Falcon3 10B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Falcon3 10B Base tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Base
Model Size	10b
Required VRAM	20.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	tiiuae
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-5 4.9 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 4.9 GB: 4-of-5 0.9 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.46.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Falcon3 10B Instruct

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Falcon3 10B Instruct 1.58bit	27	422	4 GB
...truct Gptqmodel 4bit Vortex V1	3	9	5 GB

Best Alternatives to Falcon3 10B Instruct

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Falcon3 10B Tensopolis V2	32K / 20.5 GB	8	0
Falcon3 10B Tensopolis V1	32K / 20.5 GB	5	0
...essi V0.2 Falcon3 10B Instruct	32K / 20.5 GB	8	0
FalconThink3 10B IT	32K / 20.5 GB	6	3
BuddyGlassUncensored2025.2	32K / 20.5 GB	11	4
...essi V0.1 Falcon3 10B Instruct	32K / 20.5 GB	12	0
Eyas 17B Instruct	32K / 34.8 GB	63	0
Barcenas 10B	32K / 20.5 GB	12	1
Falcon3Slerp2 10B	32K / 20.5 GB	5	0
FalconSlerp3 10B	32K / 20.5 GB	10	0