Side-by-side comparison of Falcon H1 34B (TII · UAE) and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta Platforms · United States) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Falcon H1 34B is rated conditional; Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is conditional. They part ways on licence: Falcon H1 34B is "Falcon-LLM", Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is "Llama 3.1 Community Licence".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | 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. | Conditional Per current documentation, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is released under the Llama 3.1 Community Licence — a custom source-available licence rather than OSI open source. Commercial deployment is permitted below 700M MAU subject to the Acceptable Use Policy and attribution rules, but training-data opacity and US origin create EU AI Act transparency and data-transfer gaps that deployers should document. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Falcon-LLM | Llama 3.1 Community Licence |
| Commercial use | Yes | Restricted (MAU cap + AUP) |
| Training data | Partial | Token count only |
| Origin | UAE | United States |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 12/100 |
| Speed | — | 160 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.10/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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