What are the hardware requirements for Falcon3 3B Base?

Falcon3 3B Base requires approximately 6.5 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 3B Base and how large is it?

Falcon3 3B Base 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 Falcon3 3B Base?

Falcon3 3B Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Falcon3 3B Base by tiiuae — VRAM 6.5GB, 32K context

Name: Falcon3 3B Base
Author: tiiuae

Falcon3 3B Base is an open-source language model by tiiuae. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 32K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Deploy:sagemaker En Endpoints compatible Es Falcon3 Fr Llama Pt Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-3B-Base

Falcon3 3B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Falcon3 3B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-3B-Base
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	tiiuae
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en fr es pt
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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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the Falcon3 3B Base

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Falcon3 3B Base GGUF	2	36	2 GB

Best Alternatives to Falcon3 3B Base

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Nanbeige4.1 3B	256K / 7.9 GB	20875	1161
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic	256K / 7.9 GB	149	50
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic Mxfp4	256K / 7.9 GB	34	2
Nanbeige4.1 3B Bf16	256K / 7.9 GB	47	3
...anbeige4.1 3B Heretic Bfloat16	256K / 7.9 GB	33	1
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic	256K / 7.9 GB	18	0
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic	256K / 7.9 GB	14	1
ISA 03 Mini 3B Hybrid Preview	256K / 6.5 GB	4	4
ToolMind Web 3B	192K / 7.9 GB	156	28
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct	128K / 6.5 GB	1829572	2368

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than tiiuae/Falcon3-3B-Base.