whatmodel.sh / Falcon-H1 34B Instruct

Falcon-H1 34B Instruct is an open-weights language model from TII, released May 2025. Its published size is 33.64B parameters and a 262k-token context window. Licence: other (falcon-llm-license).

Catalogue identity notes

Maker repo tiiuae/Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct @6e6890e: licence tag other (falcon-llm-license). 33,642,516,224 parameters from the Hugging Face safetensors metadata (dense, so active = total). Released 2025-05: month the maker's Hugging Face repo was created (createdAt 2025-05-01).

54.4±3.0#278 of 719 LLMsfrom 3 benchmark results across 2 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Falcon-H1 34B Instruct, out of 828 with a score, then more from TII.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
330Qwen2.5-Math 72B Instruct Alibaba55±2local~44GB2024-09
331OpenThinker2 32B Open Thoughts54±1local~21GB2025-04
332Falcon-H1 34B Instruct TII54±3local~23GB2025-05
333Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta54±1api $0.72/M +local~24GB2024-12
334Llama 4 Scout (109B-A17B) Meta54±1api $0.15/M +local~36GB2025-04
more from TII
233Falcon-H1R 7B TII60±1local~6GB2026-01
494Falcon-H1 7B Instruct TII46±3local~6GB2025-05
551Falcon3 7B Instruct TII44±3local~5.9GB2024-11

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$ what it's good at

other tests3 not in a task · 96% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
AraGen-v3 3C3H score (Inception, Claude Sonnet 4 judge)45.7% ✎▁▁·▁▂▂▄█▄▅▄▄ beats 39/66hard · avg 31%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 41%at its level
HindiGen-v1 3C3H score (Inception, Claude 3.5 Sonnet judge)53.6% ✎▁▁▁▁·▂·█▆█▇▁ beats 9/31medium · avg 48%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 40%at its level
Open PT-LLM Leaderboard average (9 Portuguese tasks)78.6% ✎▃▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂█▅▁ beats 245/276medium · avg 73%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 15%at its level · noisy

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

version

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run Falcon-H1 34B Instruct · needs ~20.3 GB · from huggingface.co/tiiuae (official)
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf tiiuae/Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf tiiuae/Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run Falcon-H1 34B Instruct · needs ~20.3 GB · from huggingface.co/tiiuae (official)

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

version

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run Falcon-H1 34B Instruct · needs ~20.3 GB · from huggingface.co/tiiuae (official)
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run hf.co/tiiuae/Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~67.29 GB · from huggingface.co/tiiuae (official)
    uv run --with torch --with 'transformers<5' --with accelerate python -c "from transformers import pipeline; print(pipeline('text-generation', model='tiiuae/Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct', torch_dtype='auto', device_map='auto')('Once upon a time', max_new_tokens=40)[0]['generated_text'])"

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/tiiuae ↗

$ how the score was worked out · Inception Arabic/Hindi leader… 81%, Open Portuguese LLM Leaderboa… 15%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Inception Arabic/Hindi leaderboards (AraGen-v3, HindiGen-v1, Arabic IFEval)2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 81%Apache-2.0
Open Portuguese LLM Leaderboard (archived)1▇▇▇▇▇ 15%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 4%
weighted average= 54.4

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