falcon
10B parameters
Commercial OK
Reviewed November 2026

Falcon 3 10B

TII's Falcon 3 at the 10B tier. Supports English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, with a context length of up to 32K.

License: Falcon LLM License·Released Dec 17, 2024·Context: 32,768 tokens

Overview

TII's Falcon 3 at the 10B tier. Supports English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, with a context length of up to 32K.

Family & lineage

How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.

Family siblings (falcon-3)
Falcon 3 7B Instruct7B
Consumer
Falcon 3 10B10B
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Distilled / fine-tuned from this

Strengths

  • Four languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
  • Permissive license

Weaknesses

  • Supports only 4 languages

Quantization variants

Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.

QuantizationFile sizeVRAM required
Q4_K_M6.0 GB8 GB

Get the model

HuggingFace

Original weights

huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Instruct

Source repository — direct quantization required.

Hardware that runs this

Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Falcon 3 10B.

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Frequently asked

What's the minimum VRAM to run Falcon 3 10B?

8GB of VRAM is enough to run Falcon 3 10B at the Q4_K_M quantization (file size 6.0 GB). Higher-quality quantizations need more.

Can I use Falcon 3 10B commercially?

Yes — Falcon 3 10B ships under the Falcon LLM License, which permits commercial use. Always read the license text before deployment.

What's the context length of Falcon 3 10B?

Falcon 3 10B supports a context window of 32,768 tokens (about 33K).

Source: huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Instruct

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Before you buy

Verify Falcon 3 10B runs on your specific hardware before committing money.