Best free Falcon (TII) alternatives

Looking for a free alternative to Falcon (TII)? Here are 9 notable open models worth trying — 9 with a free tier. Falcon (TII) itself is free.

ToolFalcon (TII) (you searched)Qwen (Alibaba)DeepSeek ModelsMistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral)
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Best forFalcon-H1 hybrid Transformer-Mamba family for efficient long-context inferenceOpen Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensedOpen-weight Mistral Medium 3.5, Small 4 and Large 3 general models
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Falcon (TII) alternatives — straight answers

What is the best free alternative to Falcon (TII)?

Qwen (Alibaba) is the closest free alternative to Falcon (TII): same Notable Open Models sub-category, and it is free. Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0

Are there free Falcon (TII) alternatives?

Yes — 9 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: Qwen (Alibaba), DeepSeek Models, Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral), OLMo (Ai2), Hunyuan (Tencent). None of them are paid-only.

Is Falcon (TII) free?

Falcon (TII) is free. There is no paid plan attached to it in the catalog.

How were these Falcon (TII) alternatives chosen?

They are the other tools in Notable Open Models, then the rest of AI Models & Local Execution, ordered free tiers first and capped at 9. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement in that ordering — only the pricing tier decides.

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Qwen (Alibaba)

Notable Open Models
free

✦ WhyA Falcon (TII) alternative — Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0.

  • Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0
  • Qwen3.6 mid-size models suit agentic coding on one high-memory machine
  • Small Qwen3.5 sizes run on phones and laptops
  • Free weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope
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DeepSeek Models

Notable Open Models
free

✦ WhyA Falcon (TII) alternative — DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensed.

  • DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensed
  • Very long context with reasoning and non-reasoning modes
  • Successors to the V3 and R1 lines
  • Free weights plus free web chat
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✦ WhyA Falcon (TII) alternative — Open-weight Mistral Medium 3.5, Small 4 and Large 3 general models.

  • Open-weight Mistral Medium 3.5, Small 4 and Large 3 general models
  • Devstral for coding agents and Magistral for visible reasoning
  • Voxtral open-weights speech models for transcription and voice agents
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OLMo (Ai2)

Notable Open Models
free

✦ WhyA Falcon (TII) alternative — Only major model family shipping full pretraining data (Dolma), code and intermediate checkpoints, not just weights.

  • Only major model family shipping full pretraining data (Dolma), code and intermediate checkpoints, not just weights
  • Olmo 3 ships Base, Think, and Instruct variants at 7B/32B
  • OlmoCore training framework and Open Instruct pipeline are also open source
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Hunyuan (Tencent)

Notable Open Models
free

✦ WhyA Falcon (TII) alternative — Open-weight Hunyuan Hy3 and Hy4-preview flagship text models.

  • Open-weight Hunyuan Hy3 and Hy4-preview flagship text models
  • Hunyuan3D line for fast image-to-3D generation
  • Hy-MT translation models covering dozens of language pairs
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MiniMax M2 (open weights)

Notable Open Models
free

✦ WhyA Falcon (TII) alternative — MiniMax's open-weight M-series: M3 multimodal MoE with very long context, plus M2.x agentic-coding checkpoints.

  • MiniMax's open-weight M-series: M3 multimodal MoE with very long context, plus M2.x agentic-coding checkpoints
  • Distinct from MiniMax's Hailuo video product
  • Free weights on Hugging Face
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Xiaomi MiMo

Notable Open Models
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✦ WhyA Falcon (TII) alternative — MiMo-V2.6-Pro (1T parameters) and V2.6-Flash (311B) open-weight reasoning and agent models.

  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro (1T parameters) and V2.6-Flash (311B) open-weight reasoning and agent models
  • Distilled MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B for single-GPU use
  • V2-Flash, V2.5 and V2.5-Pro checkpoints also published
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Step (StepFun)

Notable Open Models
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✦ WhyA Falcon (TII) alternative — Step-3.7-Flash open multimodal model with FP8, NVFP4 and GGUF builds.

  • Step-3.7-Flash open multimodal model with FP8, NVFP4 and GGUF builds
  • Step-3.5-Flash text model widely run locally
  • 51 open models incl. audio and image models
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✦ WhyA Falcon (TII) alternative — ERNIE-4.5 family including 21B-A3B Thinking and VL-424B-A47B multimodal MoE.

  • ERNIE-4.5 family including 21B-A3B Thinking and VL-424B-A47B multimodal MoE
  • ERNIE-Image and ERNIE-Image-Turbo 8B text-to-image models
  • Unlimited-OCR 3B document model (1.5M+ downloads)
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