Falcon 180B
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
- Family
- Falcon
- Released
- 2023-11-28
- Parameters
- 180B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
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.
Top use-case fit
Classification
2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
| Scale AI GenAI Platform | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
Benchmark scores(3)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 58.9 | diamondObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| HellaSwag | 92.7 | 10-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 84.2 | 5-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(1)
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Cheapest of 2 routes · Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS