Side-by-side comparison of Falcon H1 34B (TII · UAE) and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B (NVIDIA · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Falcon H1 34B is rated conditional; Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B is conditional. They part ways on licence: Falcon H1 34B is "Falcon-LLM", Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B 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 NVIDIA's Llama 3.1 fine-tune with custom RLHF. Inherits Llama 3.1 Community License terms. Strong conversational quality; useful default when you want Llama behaviour with NVIDIA's alignment. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Falcon-LLM | Llama community |
| Commercial use | Yes | With caps |
| Training data | Partial | Partial |
| Origin | UAE | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 13/100 |
| Speed | — | 42 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $1.20/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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