Awarri vs Apertus
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Awarri
Nigeria's open multilingual LLM, capped at 1,000 users free
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Apertus
Switzerland's first large-scale sovereign LLM: fully open weights, dat...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| ASEAN readiness | — | |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | N-ATLAS is open source (built with the Nigerian government); awarri.com lists no hosted plans | Fully open weights on Hugging Face; free hosted access via Swisscom and the Public AI Inference Utility |
| Paid from | Not published — awarri.com shows no prices | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | — | — |
| Maker | — | Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL, ETH Zurich, CSCS) |
| Verdict | Awarri's real contribution isn't a frontier model — N-ATLAS is an 8-billion-parameter Llama-3 derivative, nowhere near GPT- or Gemini-class capability — it's the data pipeline behind it. LangEasy crowdsources Yoruba, Hau... |
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... |
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