Side-by-side comparison of Falcon H1 34B (TII · UAE) and Qwen 3.5 (Alibaba · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Falcon H1 34B is rated conditional; Qwen 3.5 is conditional. They part ways on licence: Falcon H1 34B is "Falcon-LLM", Qwen 3.5 is "Apache 2.0".
| 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 Hybrid Gated-DeltaNet + MoE flagship (397B total, 17B active) under Apache 2.0. Native vision, 201 languages, 262K context (1M with YaRN). Licence is clean; Chinese-origin alignment and supply-chain considerations persist. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Falcon-LLM | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Yes | Yes |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | UAE | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 40/100 |
| Speed | — | 53 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $1.35/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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