What are the hardware requirements for Falcon3 1B Base?

Falcon3 1B Base requires approximately 3.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Falcon3 1B Base and how large is it?

Falcon3 1B Base is developed by tiiuae, a model with 1b 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 1B Base?

Falcon3 1B Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Falcon3 1B Base by tiiuae — VRAM 3.3GB, 4K context

Name: Falcon3 1B Base
Author: tiiuae

Falcon3 1B Base is an open-source language model by tiiuae. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 3.3GB, Context: 4K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-1B-Base

Falcon3 1B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Falcon3 1B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-1B-Base
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	3.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-18
Maintainer	tiiuae
Model Type	llama
Model Files	3.3 GB
Supported Languages	en fr es pt
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.46.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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