What are the hardware requirements for Falcon3 3B Instruct?

Falcon3 3B Instruct 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 Instruct and how large is it?

Falcon3 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 Falcon3 3B Instruct?

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

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

Name: Falcon3 3B Instruct
Author: tiiuae

Falcon3 3B Instruct is an open-source language model by tiiuae. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

Base model:finetune:tiiuae/fal... Base model:tiiuae/falcon3-3b-i... Conversational Deploy:azure Deploy:sagemaker En Endpoints compatible Es Falcon3 Fr Instruct Llama Pt Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

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

Falcon3 3B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Falcon3 3B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-3B-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Falcon3 3B Instruct tiiuae/Falcon3-3B-Instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	tiiuae
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
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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