Side-by-side comparison of Falcon H1 34B (TII · UAE) and Mistral Large 2 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Falcon H1 34B is rated conditional; Mistral Large 2 is conditional. They part ways on licence: Falcon H1 34B is "Falcon-LLM", Mistral Large 2 is "MRL (research)".
| 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 Frontier 123B dense model from an EU vendor. Open weights under Mistral Research License — non-commercial by default. Commercial deployment requires a separate paid licence from Mistral AI. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Falcon-LLM | MRL (research) |
| Commercial use | Yes | Paid licence req. |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | UAE | EU |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 15/100 |
| Speed | — | 38 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $3.00/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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