ELYZA vs Fujitsu Takane vs NTT tsuzumi vs PLaMo (Preferred Networks)
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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TK Fujitsu Takane Enterprise Japanese large language model from Fujitsu and Cohere, tune... Visit |
NTT tsuzumi
Japan's sovereign lightweight LLM — enterprise-grade Japanese AI on a...
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PLaMo (Preferred Networks)
PFN's from-scratch Japanese LLM, now in Japan's government AI stack
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | |||
| Ease of use | — | |||
| ASEAN readiness | — | |||
| API quality | — | |||
| Pricing | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free demo ended May 2026; open-weight models freely downloadable on Hugging Face | — | None — enterprise and government contracts only; no public free tier | — |
| Paid from | Enterprise contract only — no public pricing; contact sales via elyza.ai | Enterprise / contact Fujitsu | Contact NTT / NTT DATA (negotiated B2B); pay-as-you-go via Azure MaaS (token-based) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | ~110K users in 11 days at ELYZA Pencil launch (2022); enterprise B2B focus since | — | Not disclosed | — |
| Founded | 2018 | — | 1952 | — |
| Maker | KDDI Corporation | Fujitsu | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) | — |
| 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... |
What this is for: A secure enterprise LLM offering high-end Japanese-language proficiency for private business use. Who this is for: Large enterprises, especially in Japan, needing Japanese-optimized generative AI deplo... |
NTT tsuzumi 2 is a credible sovereign-AI play, not just a brand exercise. The single-H100 inference claim checks out across multiple independent reports, and being tapped for Japan's Digital Agency "Gennai" trial — rolli... |
PLaMo is one of the few Japanese LLM efforts built genuinely from scratch rather than fine-tuned on a Western base, and it's now backed by government validation: the Digital Agency rolled PLaMo Translate into its interna... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.