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Why use Falcon 40B on Microsoft Foundry?
Microsoft Foundry offers Falcon 40B with pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.54/1M input tokens. Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development.
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Compare Falcon 40B Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry | $1.54 | $1.77 |
| GCP Vertex AI | — | — |
| Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS | — | — |
| Replicate API | $0.65 | $2.75 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $1.54 |
| Output tokens | $1.77 |
Capabilities
About Falcon 40B
Falcon 40B is a leading open-source large language model developed by the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, featuring a causal decoder-only architecture with 40 billion parameters. It stands out with its use of rotary positional embeddings, multi-query attention, and FlashAttention, enhancing its contextual understanding and processing efficiency. Trained on 1 trillion tokens using the enriched RefinedWeb dataset, Falcon 40B excels in various natural language processing tasks, ranging from text generation to language translation and question answering. It supports multiple languages and is open under the Apache 2.0 license, promoting both research and commercial use.