Side-by-side comparison of DBRX Instruct (Databricks · USA) and Falcon H1 34B (TII · UAE) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DBRX Instruct is rated conditional; Falcon H1 34B is conditional. They part ways on licence: DBRX Instruct is "Databricks Open", Falcon H1 34B is "Falcon-LLM".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional 132B MoE (36B active). Databricks Open Model License is bespoke — allows commercial use with acceptable-use policy and a 700M-MAU-style cap. Read the licence carefully; not Apache 2.0. | Conditional TII's hybrid Transformer+Mamba family that supersedes Falcon 180B. 18 languages including Arabic, strong benchmarks (MMLU 84, HumanEval 87). Licence is the Falcon-LLM License (not Apache 2.0) — commercial use permitted with attribution and acceptable-use terms; verify clauses for your deployment. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-16 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Databricks Open | Falcon-LLM |
| Commercial use | With caps | Yes |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Partial |
| Origin | USA | UAE |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 8/100 | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Blended price | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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