Model reference · open weights
Falcon-H1 is an open-weight language model from tiiuae. Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct-GGUF (GGUF) weighs 20.3 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.
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 by | tiiuae |
|---|---|
| Released | 2025-05-01 |
| Parameters | 521M |
| VRAM | 20.3 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
How much memory each request adds isn't estimated yet for this architecture. The weights need at least the cards below, plus room for the context.
| Card | Weights alone |
|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB 2 smaller cards | does not fit |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | tight |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | tight |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits |
| L40S 48 GB | fits |
| A100 80 GB | fits |
| H100 80 GB | fits |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits |
| H200 141 GB | fits |
| B200 180 GB | fits |
| 2× RTX 3060 12 GB split by layers (llama.cpp) | tight |
| 2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB split by layers (llama.cpp) | fits |
| 2× RTX 4090 24 GB split by layers (llama.cpp) | fits |
| 2× RTX 3090 24 GB split by layers (llama.cpp) | fits |
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falcon-H1-0.5B-Base ↗ | 521M | BF16 | 1.0 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
| Falcon-H1-7B-Instruct ↗ | 7.6B | BF16 | 15.2 GB | 2× RTX 3060 12 GB |
| Falcon-H1-3B-Instruct ↗ | 3.1B | BF16 | 6.3 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
| Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct-GGUF (above) ↗ 35 builds: IQ1_S 7.7 GB … F32 135 GB |
— | GGUF | 20.3 GB | 2× RTX 3060 12 GB |
| Falcon-H1-1.5B-Base ↗ | 1.6B | BF16 | 3.1 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
From the model card
For more details about the training protocol of this model, please refer to the Falcon-H1 technical blogpost and Technical Report.
Currently to use this model you can either rely on Hugging Face transformers, vLLM or llama.cpp library.
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"
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
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.cppYou can find all GGUF files under our official collection
Falcon-H1 series perform very well on a variety of tasks, including reasoning tasks.
| Tasks | Falcon-H1-0.5B | Qwen3-0.6B | Qwen2.5-0.5B | Gemma3-1B | Llama3.2-1B | Falcon3-1B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General | ||||||
| BBH | 40.22 | 36.07 | 32.62 | 30.26 | 30.72 | 35.24 |
| MMLU | 55.04 | 52.64 | 47.61 | 26.33 | 32.39 | 45.14 |
| ARC-C | 46.93 | 44.8 | 35.32 | 39.33 | 39.42 | 47.87 |
| HellaSwag | 56.3 | 53.51 | 51.79 | 62.94 | 65.73 | 62.3 |
| Winogrande | 59.43 | 60.54 | 56.83 | 62.59 | 62.75 | 61.17 |
| Math | ||||||
| GSM8k | 60.2 | 50.04 | 34.8 | 2.2 | 7.05 | 34.95 |
| MATH lvl5 | 15.18 | 9.29 | 4.23 | 1.21 | 0.98 | 3.4 |
| Science | ||||||
| GPQA | 29.7 | 29.11 | 27.94 | 24.66 | 23.57 | 27.85 |
| MMLU-Pro | 30.04 | 22.99 | 18.98 | 11.31 | 11.8 | 16.11 |
| MMLU-stem | 57.12 | 50.11 | 43.74 | 27.59 | 30.19 | 40.06 |
| Code | ||||||
| HumanEval | 35.98 | 31.71 | 29.27 | 6.71 | 18.9 | 10.37 |
| HumanEval+ | 31.1 | 27.44 | 25.0 | 5.49 | 16.46 | 9.15 |
| MBPP | 52.12 | 51.06 | 40.74 | 12.7 | 35.98 | 12.43 |
| MBPP+ | 43.39 | 42.33 | 34.66 | 9.52 | 29.89 | 9.52 |
You can check more in detail on our our release blogpost, detailed benchmarks.
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.