ELYZA vs ExaWizards exaBase
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
ELYZA
Japan's Japanese-first LLM — from U Tokyo's Matsuo Lab, backed by KDDI
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free demo ended May 2026; open-weight models freely downloadable on Hugging Face | 2-week free trial (basic fee and usage waived up to a cap); exaBase Empower up to 6-month free trial |
| Paid from | Enterprise contract only — no public pricing; contact sales via elyza.ai | From ¥900/user/month + ¥27/1,000 chars (exaBase Generative AI); Studio pricing on request |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | ~110K users in 11 days at ELYZA Pencil launch (2022); enterprise B2B focus since | 50,000+ users across 550 companies (exaBase Generative AI, July 2024) |
| Founded | 2018 | 2016 |
| Maker | KDDI Corporation | ExaWizards Inc. (TSE: 4259) |
| Verdict | ELYZA has the cleanest academic-to-enterprise pipeline among Japan's domestic LLM shops: University of Tokyo Matsuo Lab research, a 2024 KDDI majority buy-in (53.4% combined stake), and production deployments that aren't... |
exaBase earned Japan's #1 ranking in the Deloitte Tohmatsu MIC FY2023 study across seven categories, and July 2026 brought a rebrand that matches the ambition: exaBase 生成AI is now simply exaBase AI, with autonomous age... |
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