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Falcon 180B

Open-source frontier model by TII

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★4.1ratingPricing · FreeHot
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Data updated 2 November 2026
Opportunity
Moderate
Band
Saturation
Contested
Band
Wrapper risk
Low
Band
Momentum
Hot
Market trend
Rating
4.1
of 5 · FalcoScan rating

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The Brief

What Falcon 180B does

Falcon 180B is an open large language model from the Technology Innovation Institute with 180 billion parameters, trained on 3.5 trillion tokens. It is intended for developers, companies, researchers and hosting providers, and is available for research and commercial use. The model can be downloaded and integrated into applications and end user products, and developers may build and sell applications on top of it while hosting it on their own or leased infrastructure. It is released under a royalty free license based on Apache 2.0 that restricts illegal or harmful use. Hosting providers offering shared instances as a paid inference or fine tuning API need a separate license. Downloading the model is free.

How Falcon 180B compares with its closest alternatives

All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Falcon 180B does. All 5 offer an API, as Falcon 180B does. Falcon 180B was founded in 2023; the alternatives were founded between 2023 and 2024. The alternatives with a known headquarters are in China and the United States.

Market position · AI Models

How Falcon 180B compares in AI Models

Falcon 180B has moderate opportunity and sits in the bottom third of 455 live AI Models tools on FalcoScan. Across AI Models, the average opportunity score is 74.6 and the average saturation score 30.5. FalcoScan rates Falcon 180B's own market position as contested. 200 of the 455 operating AI Models tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 13 shutdowns in the category.

Falcon 180B compared with its closest alternatives
ProductOpportunitySaturationPricingPricing fromFree planAPIPlatformsMomentum
Falcon 180BFounded 2023ModerateContestedFree—YesYesAPIHot
DeepSeek R1Founded 2023HighContestedFreemium—YesYesAPIHot
DeepSeek V3Founded 2023 · Hangzhou, ChinaHighOpenFreemium—YesYesWeb, APIHot
Llama 3.3Founded 2024 · San Francisco, United StatesHighOpenFree—YesYesAPI, CLIHot
Ollama Models HubFounded 2023HighOpenFree—YesYesDesktop, CLIHot
Qwen 2.5 72BFounded 2023 · Hangzhou, ChinaHighOpenFree—YesYesAPI, CLIHot

Exact opportunity and saturation scores for all 6 of these, and where each ranks in AI Models.

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What it ships with

Capabilities & who uses it

The capabilities Falcon 180B exposes to builders and the verticals it currently serves.

AI Capabilities
Text GenerationCode Generation
Industry Verticals
SoftwareEducation
Tagged

Falcon 180B shows up when builders search for these

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Questions

Falcon 180B: common questions

Can Falcon 180B be used commercially?

Yes. The site says Falcon 180B is available for research and commercial use under a royalty free license based on Apache 2.0, though hosting providers selling shared API access need a separate license.

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Is Falcon 180B free?

Yes. FalcoScan lists Falcon 180B as free to use.

What are the best alternatives to Falcon 180B?

The closest alternatives to Falcon 180B that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are DeepSeek R1, DeepSeek V3, Llama 3.3, Ollama Models Hub, and Qwen 2.5 72B.

Is Falcon 180B still running?

Yes. As of 2 November 2026, FalcoScan lists Falcon 180B as operating at falconllm.tii.ae.

Does Falcon 180B have an API?

Yes. Falcon 180B offers an API.

Who is Falcon 180B for?

Falcon 180B is built for developers and researchers.

How do I sign in to Falcon 180B?

Sign in on Falcon 180B's own website, falconllm.tii.ae. FalcoScan reviews Falcon 180B but does not run its accounts, so logins, passwords and billing are handled by Falcon 180B directly.

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