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Falcon 180B

Released
2023-11-28
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago
Classification

Falcon 180B is worth evaluating for classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating classification
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
Falcon
Released
2023-11-28
Parameters
180B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

Innovative open-source AI for global impact

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Founded 2019
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
-
Input / 1M
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Cheapest of 2 routes · Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS

About

Falcon 180B is an advanced large language model developed by the Technology Innovation Institute in the UAE, featuring an impressive 180 billion parameters. It is trained on a vast dataset of 3.5 trillion tokens, positioning it amongst the top-performing LLMs worldwide. This open-source model excels in natural language processing tasks such as reasoning, coding, and knowledge retrieval, showing results comparable to leading closed-source models like Google's PaLM 2 Large. While Falcon 180B is publicly available and open for commercial use under a modified Apache 2.0 license, its deployment requires significant computational resources. The model is optimized through architectural enhancements like multiquery and multigroup attention, improving efficiency and performance. Falcon 180B is accessible via platforms such as Hugging Face, fostering collaboration and wider application integration.

Falcon 180B is a model in the Falcon family. This page tracks provider routes through Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS and Scale AI GenAI Platform. Headline tracked benchmarks include Google-Proof Q&A 58.9, HellaSwag 92.7, and Massive Multitask Language Understanding 84.2.

Top use-case fit

Classification

2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 2

Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS--
ServerlessPartial
Scale AI GenAI Platform--
ServerlessPartial

Capabilities

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Benchmark peer barsfor Classification

Benchmark scores(3)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
Google-Proof Q&A58.9diamondhttps://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard
HellaSwag92.710-shothttps://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard
Massive Multitask Language Understanding84.25-shothttps://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard

Migration checks

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