Agnes AI vs Notion AI vs SEA-LION vs WoLai 我来
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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Notion AI
AI writing, summarisation, and Q&A built directly into your Notion wor...
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SEA-LION
Open-source LLM family for 11+ Southeast Asian languages
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WoLai 我来
Chinese all-in-one workspace (Notion alternative)
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.1 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 | 5.9 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Paid | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | 20 free AI responses to trial the feature | All weights free on Hugging Face; free API via playground.sea-lion.ai (10 req/min) | — |
| Paid from | — | $20/user/month (Business, billed annually) — the plan that bundles full Notion AI; Plus | Open weights, free to self-host; hosted access via cloud providers | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 100M+ total users; 4M+ paying customers (AI is gated to Business/Enterprise) | Hundreds to low-thousands of monthly Hugging Face downloads per variant | — |
| Founded | — | — | — | 2020 |
| Maker | SAPIENS | Notion Labs | AI Singapore (AISG) — national programme hosted by the National University of Singapore, funded by Singapore NRF | — |
| 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... |
Notion AI's advantage is context: it drafts, summarises, and answers questions across the docs, wikis, and databases you already keep in Notion, plus connected tools like Slack and Drive — no copy-paste. Custom Agents (F... |
SEA-LION is the most credible open-weight LLM built specifically for Southeast Asia -- nothing else in the open-source space covers this many regional languages this well. Backed by Singapore's National Research Foundati... |
WoLai (我来) is a Notion-style all-in-one document and knowledge workspace popular in China, offering blocks, databases, wikis and AI writing assists in a polished, fast interface. For Chinese-language teams it is a capa... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.