What are the hardware requirements for Falcon 7B Instruct?

Falcon 7B Instruct requires approximately 14.4 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Falcon 7B Instruct and how large is it?

Falcon 7B Instruct 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.

How does Falcon 7B Instruct perform on standard benchmarks?

Falcon 7B Instruct has the following published scores: MMLU 25.66. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Falcon 7B Instruct by tiiuae — VRAM 14.4GB

Name: Falcon 7B Instruct
Author: tiiuae

Falcon 7B Instruct is an open-source language model by tiiuae. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 14.4GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18, Arc: 45.8, HellaSwag: 70.8, MMLU: 25.7, GSM8K: 4.6.

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct

Falcon 7B Instruct Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Causal decoder-only

Use Cases

Limitations:

Trained mostly on English data; may not generalize to other languages, Carries stereotypes and biases from online corpus

Supported Languages

English (high), French (high)

Training Details

Data Sources:

Bai ze, GPT4All, GPTeacher, RefinedWeb-English

Data Volume:

250M tokens

Methodology:

finetuning

Context Length:

2048

Hardware Used:

32 A100 40GB GPUs on AWS SageMaker

Model Architecture:

Causal language modeling task with modifications from the GPT-3 architecture

Responsible Ai Considerations

Mitigation Strategies:

Recommend users develop guardrails and take precautions for any production use.

LLM Name	Falcon 7B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	14.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	tiiuae
Model Type	falcon
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-2 4.5 GB: 2-of-2 9.9 GB: 1-of-2 4.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	FalconForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.27.4
Is Biased	0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	65024
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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