Agnes AI vs LayerX Bakuraku
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Agnes AI
SEA-built AI workspace with its own 8B open-source SeaLLM model
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LayerX Bakuraku
Japan's AI back-office suite: invoices, expenses, cards, one platform
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.1 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Free tier | — | No free tier; no free trial publicly listed |
| Paid from | — | From ~¥30,000/month per module; corporate card is free (no annual fee) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 15,000+ corporate customers as of January 2026 |
| Founded | — | 2018 |
| Maker | — | LayerX Inc. |
| Verdict | Agnes AI is the most credible homegrown case for a Southeast Asian model company right now: instead of just reselling access to OpenAI or Anthropic, Sapiens AI shipped Agnes-SeaLLM-8B, an open-weights 8B model on Hugging... |
Bakuraku is the sharpest AI-native back-office platform in Japan's enterprise SaaS market, full stop. Sub-second OCR, native API links into freee, Money Forward, and SAP S/4HANA, and workflows built around Japan's electr... |
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