ExaWizards exaBase vs smolagents
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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Hugging Face's minimalist agent library where agents write their actio...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | 2-week free trial (basic fee and usage waived up to a cap); exaBase Empower up to 6-month free trial | Fully free and open-source (Apache-2.0); works with any supported LLM backend. |
| Paid from | From ¥900/user/month + ¥27/1,000 chars (exaBase Generative AI); Studio pricing on request | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 50,000+ users across 550 companies (exaBase Generative AI, July 2024) | 28K+ GitHub stars |
| Founded | 2016 | 2025 |
| Maker | ExaWizards Inc. (TSE: 4259) | Hugging Face |
| Verdict | 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... |
What this is for: Building lightweight AI agents that act by writing and running Python code in a sandbox. Who this is for: Developers who want a small, hackable agent framework with minimal abstractions and Hugging Fac... |
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