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Falcon3 10B Instruct

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Falcon3 10B Instruct is an open-weights language model from TII, released December 2024. Its published size is 10.31B parameters and a 32k-token context window. Licence: falcon-llm.

Catalogue identity notes

Maker repo tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Instruct @8799bc6: licence tag other (falcon-llm-license). 10,305,653,760 parameters from the Hugging Face safetensors metadata. Dense, so active = total. Released 2024-12: month the maker's Hugging Face repo was created (createdAt 2024-12-14). Ollama tags falcon3:10b-instruct-q4_K_M, falcon3:10b-instruct-q8_0 are the library's instruct/chat builds of this checkpoint (tag names on the pinned tags page); download sizes are estimated from the parameter count.

43.8±2.7#467 of 719 LLMsfrom 7 benchmark results across 3 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Falcon3 10B Instruct, out of 828 with a score, then more from TII.

#	model	score	where	RAM	released
554	Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B Cognitive Computations	44±1	local	~29GB	2023-12
555	Granite 8B Code Instruct (4K) IBM	44±1	local	~6.6GB	2024-04
556	Falcon3 10B Instruct TII	44±3	local	~7.6GB	2024-12
557	Code Tulu 2 34B Allen Institute for AI	44±2	local	~72GB	2023-11
558	Qwen3 1.7B Alibaba	44±1	local	~2.6GB	2025-04
	more from TII
233	Falcon-H1R 7B TII	60±1	local	~6GB	2026-01
332	Falcon-H1 34B Instruct TII	54±3	local	~23GB	2025-05
494	Falcon-H1 7B Instruct TII	46±3	local	~6GB	2025-05

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▅▅▄▃▁ #270 of 300 * · 39% of its score · 2 tests

Beats Magistral Small 1.0 (2506), Llama 4 Scout (109B-A17B), Bielik 11B v2.3 Instruct here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Granite 4.0 H 350M, Qwen3 0.6B, Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct here, though they rank lower overall.

test	result	vs the others in its run	difficulty	counts	why
BFCL V4 (December 2025 archive)	27.0% ✎	▁▁▁▂██▅▅▆▂▂▂ beats 19/77	hard · avg 32%	▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 24%	typical
BFCL v3	45.1% ✎	▁▁▁▁▁▃▅█▅▄▁▁ beats 22/114	medium · avg 52%	▇▇▇▇▇▇ 14%	blunt · at its level

coding▁▁▁▃▆██▇▆▄▃▁ #345 of 458 · 44% of its score · 4 tests

Beats LFM2.5 2.6B, LFM2.5 8B-A1B, Qwen3-VL 2B Thinking here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct (Apr 2024), DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat, OpenChat 3.5 here, though they rank lower overall.

test	result	vs the others in its run	difficulty	counts	why
CodeReviewQA: solution identification (hard), invariant accuracy	18.0% ✎	▃··▁▂▃▃▂█▃▄▂ beats 12/47	medium · avg 54%	▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 17%	sharp · at its level · noisy
CodeReviewQA: change localisation (hard), invariant accuracy	12.0% ✎	█▂▁▁▂▂▃▃▅▅▅▇ beats 18/47	medium · avg 36%	▇▇▇▇▇▇ 15%	sharp · noisy
CodeReviewQA: automated code refinement, exact match rate	22.3% ✎	▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▂▃█▅▄ beats 14/47	hard · avg 33%	▇▇▇▇▇ 12%	typical
CodeReviewQA: change type recognition, invariant accuracy	44.7% ✎	▁▁▁······▃▃█ beats 4/47	easy · avg 67%	▇ 0.3%	blunt · at its level · noisy

other tests1 not in a task · 15% of its score

test	result	vs the others in its run	difficulty	counts	why
Open PT-LLM Leaderboard average (9 Portuguese tasks)	74.6% ✎	▃▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂█▅▁ beats 219/276	medium · avg 73%	▇▇▇▇▇▇ 15%	at its level · noisy

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

version

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 ↗
Run Falcon3 10B Instruct · needs ~6.3 GB · from huggingface.co/tiiuae (official)
chat in the terminal
llama cli -hf tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Instruct-GGUF:q4_k_m
Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
llama serve -hf tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Instruct-GGUF:q4_k_m

LM Studio

version

Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.
download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗
Run Falcon3 10B Instruct · needs ~6.3 GB · from huggingface.co/tiiuae (official)
open in LM Studio ↗
Or download it in the terminal
lms get https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Instruct-GGUF@q4_k_m -y
Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

version

Install Ollama
download it (macOS / Windows) ↗
Linux
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
Run Falcon3 10B Instruct · needs ~6.69 GB · from ollama.com
chat in the terminal
ollama run falcon3:10b-instruct-q4_K_M

MLX (Mac)

version

Install MLX (Mac) · Apple silicon Macs only, text only.
with uv
uv tool install mlx-lm
or
pip install mlx-lm
Run Falcon3 10B Instruct · needs ~5.8 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/mlx-community
chat in the terminal
mlx_lm.chat --model mlx-community/Falcon3-10B-Instruct-4bit
Or start an OpenAI-compatible server at http://localhost:8080/v1
mlx_lm.server --model mlx-community/Falcon3-10B-Instruct-4bit

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/tiiuae ↗

$ how the score was worked out · CodeReviewQA: The Code Review… 44%, Berkeley Function Calling Lea… 39%, 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

source	results	share of the score	licence
CodeReviewQA: The Code Review Comprehension Assessment for Large Language Models (arXiv:2503.16167v2)	4	▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 44%	CC-BY-4.0
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard result archive	2	▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 39%	Apache-2.0
Open Portuguese LLM Leaderboard (archived)	1	▇▇▇▇ 15%	Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle		▇ 3%
weighted average		= 43.8

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