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Falcon-H1

LLMs tiiuae Text gen 5 builds Its own licence terms 67k dl/mo

Falcon-H1 is an open-weight language model from tiiuae. Falcon-H1-1.5B-Base (BF16) weighs 3.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • Falcon-H1 is a 521M parameter causal decoder-only language model developed by tiiuae for text generation tasks.
  • It utilizes a hybrid architecture combining Transformers and Mamba components and supports a context length of 16384 tokens.
  • The model is trained on English, Arabic, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian and other languages, and is distributed under the Falcon-LLM License.

Summary of the tiiuae/Falcon-H1-0.5B-Base model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.

What it is

Released bytiiuae
Released2025-05-01
Parameters521M
VRAM3.1 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Falcon-H1-1.5B-Base (BF16)

3.1 GBweights, file size
25 MBcache per 1K tokens
77 MBfixed state per request
568 MBruntime overhead, at least
131,072 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB289all 128K11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB4213all 128K15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GB7022all 128K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB7022all 128K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB9831all 128K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB14445all 128K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB26884all 128K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB25680all 128K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB31398all 128K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified362114all 128K107 GB
H200 141 GB472148all 128K138 GB
B200 180 GB608191all 128K176 GB
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
14.0 GB4.6 GB
55.1 GB8.1 GB
85.9 GB10.7 GB
168.1 GB17.8 GB
3212.6 GB31.9 GB
6421.5 GB60.1 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
Falcon-H1-0.5B-Base ↗ 521MBF16 1.0 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Falcon-H1-7B-Instruct ↗ 7.6BBF16 15.2 GB2× RTX 3060 12 GB
Falcon-H1-3B-Instruct ↗ 3.1BBF16 6.3 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct-GGUF ↗
35 builds: IQ1_S 7.7 GB … F32 135 GB
—GGUF 20.3 GB2× RTX 3060 12 GB
Falcon-H1-1.5B-Base (above) ↗ 1.6BBF16 3.1 GBRTX 3060 12 GB

From the model card

What tiiuae says about Falcon-H1

Read the model card
  1. TL;DR
  2. Model Details
  3. Training Details
  4. Usage
  5. Evaluation
  6. Citation

TL;DR

Model Details

Model Description

  • Developed by: https://www.tii.ae
  • Model type: Causal decoder-only
  • Architecture: Hybrid Transformers + Mamba architecture
  • Language(s) (NLP): English
  • License: Falcon-LLM License

Training details

For more details about the training protocol of this model, please refer to the Falcon-H1 technical blogpost and Technical Report.

Usage

Currently to use this model you can either rely on Hugging Face transformers, vLLM or llama.cpp library.

Inference

Inference

Make sure to install the latest version of transformers or vllm, eventually install these packages from source:

pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git

For vLLM, make sure to install vllm>=0.9.0:

pip install "vllm>=0.9.0"

🤗 transformers

Refer to the snippet below to run H1 models using 🤗 transformers:

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_id = "tiiuae/Falcon-H1-1B-Base"

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
  model_id,
  torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
  device_map="auto"
)

# Perform text generation

vLLM

For vLLM, simply start a server by executing the command below:

# pip install vllm>=0.9.0
vllm serve tiiuae/Falcon-H1-1B-Instruct --tensor-parallel-size 2 --data-parallel-size 1

llama.cpp

You can find all GGUF files under our official collection

Evaluation

Falcon-H1 series perform very well on a variety of tasks, including reasoning tasks.

TasksFalcon-H1-0.5BQwen3-0.6BQwen2.5-0.5BGemma3-1BLlama3.2-1BFalcon3-1B
General
BBH40.2236.0732.6230.2630.7235.24
MMLU55.0452.6447.6126.3332.3945.14
ARC-C46.9344.835.3239.3339.4247.87
HellaSwag56.353.5151.7962.9465.7362.3
Winogrande59.4360.5456.8362.5962.7561.17
Math
GSM8k60.250.0434.82.27.0534.95
MATH lvl515.189.294.231.210.983.4
Science
GPQA29.729.1127.9424.6623.5727.85
MMLU-Pro30.0422.9918.9811.3111.816.11
MMLU-stem57.1250.1143.7427.5930.1940.06
Code
HumanEval35.9831.7129.276.7118.910.37
HumanEval+31.127.4425.05.4916.469.15
MBPP52.1251.0640.7412.735.9812.43
MBPP+43.3942.3334.669.5229.899.52

You can check more in detail on our our release blogpost, detailed benchmarks.

Useful links

Citation

If the Falcon-H1 family of models were helpful to your work, feel free to give us a cite.

@article{falconh1,
    title={Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Language Models Redefining Efficiency and Performance},
    author={Jingwei Zuo and Maksim Velikanov and Ilyas Chahed and Younes Belkada and Dhia Eddine Rhayem and Guillaume Kunsch and Hakim Hacid and Hamza Yous and Brahim Farhat and Ibrahim Khadraoui and Mugariya Farooq and Giulia Campesan and Ruxandra Cojocaru and Yasser Djilali and Shi Hu and Iheb Chaabane and Puneesh Khanna and Mohamed El Amine Seddik and Ngoc Dung Huynh and Phuc Le Khac and Leen AlQadi and Billel Mokeddem and Mohamed Chami and Abdalgader Abubaker and Mikhail Lubinets and Kacper Piskorski and Slim Frikha},
    journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.22448},
    year={2025}
}

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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