Title: Aya 23 8B vs Falcon 7B: Parameters, License %E2%80%94 LLM EU
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# Aya 23 8B vs Falcon 7B

Put two to four models side by side on the fields that decide a deployment: context, price, region, license, languages, hosting, and what is verified.

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## When to use it

### [Aya 23 8B](/en/models/aya-23-8b/)

#### Strengths

- 23 declared languages with a European emphasis
- appears as a baseline in an independent European-language evaluation
- small footprint for fine-tuning

#### Limits

- CC-BY-NC-4.0 forbids commercial serving
- 8192-token context window and dated May 2024
- superseded by Aya Expanse

#### Tasks

[Multilingual support](/en/tasks/multilingual-support/), [Translation](/en/tasks/translation/), [Summarisation](/en/tasks/summarization/)

### [Falcon 7B](/en/models/falcon-7b/)

#### Strengths

- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- Apache-2.0 licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- at 7.2B parameters it fits on a single accelerator
- the model page lists en

#### Limits

- catalogue only %E2%80%94 LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 7.2B parameters, the weights fit on a single modest accelerator

#### Tasks

[Multilingual support](/en/tasks/multilingual-support/)

**Tasks:** [Multilingual support](/en/tasks/multilingual-support/)

## Compare models

- [Aya 23 8B vs Aya Expanse 8B](/en/compare/aya-23-8b-vs-aya-expanse-8b/)
- [Aya 23 8B vs EuroLLM-9B-Instruct (2512)](/en/compare/aya-23-8b-vs-eurollm-9b-instruct-2512/)
- [Aya 23 8B vs Falcon 7B Instruct](/en/compare/aya-23-8b-vs-falcon-7b-instruct/)
- [Aya 23 8B vs Falcon H1 7B Instruct](/en/compare/aya-23-8b-vs-falcon-h1-7b-instruct/)
- [Aya 23 8B vs Falcon Mamba 7B Instruct](/en/compare/aya-23-8b-vs-falcon-mamba-7b-instruct/)
- [Aya 23 8B vs Falcon3 10B Instruct](/en/compare/aya-23-8b-vs-falcon3-10b-instruct/)