Falcon 3 7B Instruct
TII's latest dense 7B from December 2024. Strong scores on commonsense reasoning benchmarks. TII's Falcon licence permits royalty-free commercial use with attribution.
- Parameters
- 7B
- Context length
- 33K
- Modality
- text
- Released
- 2024-12-17
Memory & hardware
- VRAM (fp16)
- 14 GB
- VRAM (Q4)
- 4.2 GB
- Recommended
- RTX 3090 24GB
- Quantizations
- fp16, q8_0, q5_k_m, q4_k_m
Benchmarks
Hosted inference pricing
No hosted pricing listed — this model is currently self-host-only on this site.
Run it yourself
Drop-in commands for the three most common open-source inference paths. The Ollama tag is a best-effort match against the registry; verify the size variant before pulling.
ollama run falcon3:7b
vllm serve tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Instruct
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Instruct")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Instruct", device_map="auto", torch_dtype="auto"
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