Agnes AI vs Obsidian Smart Connections
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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Obsidian Smart Connections
Local AI plugin for Obsidian
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.1 / 10 | 6.9 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | — | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — |
| 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... |
Smart Connections is a popular community plugin that adds semantic note linking and a chat-with-your-vault interface to Obsidian, with options to run embeddings locally or via API. For knowledge workers building a person... |
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