ChatGPT vs Maritaca AI (Sabiá)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
ChatGPT
The most widely used AI assistant — now on GPT-5.6, from OpenAI
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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 | 9.2 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | GPT-5-class model with daily message limits | — |
| Paid from | $20/month (Plus); free, Go, Pro, and Team/Enterprise tiers also offered | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~900M weekly active users (1B+ monthly active app users as of mid-2026) | — |
| Founded | 2022 | — |
| Maker | OpenAI | — |
| Verdict | ChatGPT is still the default AI assistant, and the July 2026 release of GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra and Luna tiers) keeps the flagship current across writing, coding and agentic work. No rival matches its feature breadth — voice... |
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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