Apertus vs Maritaca AI (Sabiá)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Apertus
Switzerland's first large-scale sovereign LLM: fully open weights, dat...
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Maritaca AI (Sabiá)
Brazilian Portuguese LLMs beating GPT on Brazil's bar exam and ENEM
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
| API quality | — | |
| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Fully open weights on Hugging Face; free hosted access via Swisscom and the Public AI Inference Utility | — |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2025 | — |
| Maker | Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL, ETH Zurich, CSCS) | — |
| Verdict | What this is for: A fully transparent, multilingual open LLM (8B and 70B) built as European sovereign infrastructure, with weights, data, and training recipes all published. Who this is for: Researchers, public institut... |
Maritaca started in October 2022, a month before ChatGPT, as a Unicamp research spinout under CEO Rodrigo Nogueira, and it's stayed narrowly focused: Portuguese, Brazilian law, and Brazilian exams. Sabiá models are bench... |
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