Side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek-V4-Flash (DeepSeek · China) and Falcon H1 34B (TII · UAE) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DeepSeek-V4-Flash is rated conditional; Falcon H1 34B is conditional. They part ways on licence: DeepSeek-V4-Flash is "MIT", Falcon H1 34B is "Falcon-LLM".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional DeepSeek-V4-Flash is the smaller-active sibling of V4-Pro under the same MIT terms — permissive on the weights, but the China-based vendor and undocumented training corpus mean any EU deployment still needs a self-hosted topology and a deployer-side GPAI documentation file under AI Act Article 53. | 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 | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-16 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Falcon-LLM |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Yes |
| Training data | Categories only | Partial |
| Origin | China | UAE |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 47/100 | — |
| Speed | 79 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $0.17/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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