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Falcon H1R 7B vs Hunyuan 7B Instruct
Updated November 2026
Verdict
Falcon H1R 7B scores higher on the Small LM Index: 57.5 vs 52.5, although their likely ranges overlap, so the lead is not certain. On the 3 benchmarks both labs report, Falcon H1R 7B wins 3 and Hunyuan 7B Instruct wins 0. Both need about 6.3 GB of memory at 4-bit quantization. Neither model has a hosted API on OpenRouter, so you would run both yourself.
Pick Falcon H1R 7B if…
- you want the strongest model overall
- you need math and reasoning
- you work with long documents
Pick Hunyuan 7B Instruct if…
No clear advantage in the data we have.
Specifications
| Falcon H1R 7B | Hunyuan 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Small LM Index | 57.5 (likely 54–61) | 52.5 (likely 48–57) |
| Lab | TII (Falcon) · Other | Tencent (Hunyuan) · China |
| Released | 2026-01-05 | 2025-08-04 |
| Parameters | 7.6B (dense) | 7.5B (dense) |
| Memory at 4-bit | ~5.6 GB | ~6.3 GB |
| Context window | 262K tokens | 256K tokens |
| Input | text | text |
| Reasoning | Always thinks | Hybrid (thinking on/off) |
| License | Falcon LLM License | Tencent Hunyuan Community |
| API price / 1M tokens | Self-host only | Self-host only |
| Hugging Face downloads (30 days) | 2.4K | 9.6K |
Benchmarks
Higher is better. Bold marks the winner where both labs report a score. ≈ marks the index model's estimate for a score that wasn't reported, ✓ an independent measurement and * a score measured by another lab.
| Benchmark | Falcon H1R 7B | Hunyuan 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro Knowledge | 72.1 | ≈ 74 |
| GPQA Diamond Knowledge | 61.3 | 60.1 |
| Humanity's Last Exam Reasoning | 11.1 | ≈ 7 |
| AIME Math | 83.1 | 75.3 |
| LiveCodeBench Coding | ≈ 66 | 57.0 |
| IFBench Instruction following | 53.4 | — |
| BFCL Agentic | — | 70.8 |
| MATH-500 Math | 97.4 | 93.7 |
| HMMT Math | 64.9 | — |
Scores are mostly reported by each lab with its own settings, so small gaps are noise. See the methodology. Open in the interactive comparison to add more models.
Questions
Which is better, Falcon H1R 7B or Hunyuan 7B Instruct?
Falcon H1R 7B scores higher on the Small LM Index: 57.5 vs 52.5, although their likely ranges overlap, so the lead is not certain. On the 3 benchmarks both labs report, Falcon H1R 7B wins 3 and Hunyuan 7B Instruct wins 0.
Which is cheaper to run?
Neither model has a hosted API on OpenRouter, so you would run both yourself. Both need about 6.3 GB of memory at 4-bit quantization.
Which has the longer context window?
Falcon H1R 7B has the longer context window: 262K tokens against 256K.
Can I use Falcon H1R 7B and Hunyuan 7B Instruct commercially?
Falcon H1R 7B is released under Falcon LLM License and Hunyuan 7B Instruct under Tencent Hunyuan Community. Apache 2.0 and MIT allow commercial use; other licenses can add conditions, so read the license before shipping a product.