Side-by-side comparison of Falcon H1 34B (TII · UAE) and Llama 4 Maverick (Meta · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Falcon H1 34B is rated conditional; Llama 4 Maverick is conditional. They part ways on licence: Falcon H1 34B is "Falcon-LLM", Llama 4 Maverick is "Llama community".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 Llama 4 flagship: MoE with 17B active over 128 experts, natively multimodal (text + images). Same Llama community licence as the family: 700M MAU cap, acceptable-use policy, 'Built with Llama' attribution. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Falcon-LLM | Llama community |
| Commercial use | Yes | With caps |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | UAE | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 18/100 |
| Speed | — | 116 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.50/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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No overlapping sources between the two entries.