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Falcon H1R 7B vs Gemma 3n E4B
Updated November 2026
Verdict
Falcon H1R 7B scores higher on the Small LM Index: 57.5 vs 18.2. On the 3 benchmarks both labs report, Falcon H1R 7B wins 3 and Gemma 3n E4B wins 0. Both need about 5.6 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 Gemma 3n E4B if…
- you need image input
- you want the more widely used model (more quantized builds and community support)
Specifications
| Falcon H1R 7B | Gemma 3n E4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Small LM Index | 57.5 (likely 54–61) | 18.2 (likely 16–21) |
| Lab | TII (Falcon) · Other | Google · United States |
| Released | 2026-01-05 | 2025-06-26 |
| Parameters | 7.6B (dense) | 7.8B (dense) |
| Memory at 4-bit | ~5.6 GB | ~5.5 GB |
| Context window | 262K tokens | 32K tokens |
| Input | text | text, image, audio, video |
| Reasoning | Always thinks | No thinking |
| License | Falcon LLM License | Gemma |
| API price / 1M tokens | Self-host only | Self-host only |
| Hugging Face downloads (30 days) | 2.4K | 12.7K |
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 | Gemma 3n E4B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro Knowledge | 72.1 | 50.6 |
| GPQA Diamond Knowledge | 61.3 | 23.7 |
| Humanity's Last Exam Reasoning | 11.1 | ≈ 1 |
| AIME Math | 83.1 | 11.6 |
| LiveCodeBench Coding | ≈ 66 | 25.7 |
| IFBench Instruction following | 53.4 | — |
| MMLU Knowledge | — | 64.9 |
| Multilingual MMLU Multilingual | — | 60.3 |
| MATH-500 Math | 97.4 | — |
| 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 Gemma 3n E4B?
Falcon H1R 7B scores higher on the Small LM Index: 57.5 vs 18.2. On the 3 benchmarks both labs report, Falcon H1R 7B wins 3 and Gemma 3n E4B wins 0.
Which is cheaper to run?
Neither model has a hosted API on OpenRouter, so you would run both yourself. Both need about 5.6 GB of memory at 4-bit quantization.
Which has the longer context window?
Falcon H1R 7B has the longer context window: 262K tokens against 32K.
Can I use Falcon H1R 7B and Gemma 3n E4B commercially?
Falcon H1R 7B is released under Falcon LLM License and Gemma 3n E4B under Gemma. Apache 2.0 and MIT allow commercial use; other licenses can add conditions, so read the license before shipping a product.
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