HyperCLOVA X vs KT Mi:dm
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
HyperCLOVA X
Naver's Korea-first sovereign large language model
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KT Mi:dm
KT's sovereign Korean-first LLM — MIT-licensed, enterprise-ready
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | Open SEED model weights on Hugging Face | Mi:dm 2.0 Base (11.5B) and Mini (2.3B) free on Hugging Face (MIT) |
| Paid from | Enterprise via Naver Cloud / CLOVA Studio (custom) | Enterprise Mi:dm Studio API — quote-based, contact KT (pricing not publicly disclosed) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | Embedded across Naver's search and shopping services in Korea | Enterprise clients undisclosed; KT Cloud serves ~650,000 companies |
| Founded | 2023 | 1981 |
| Maker | Naver (Naver Cloud) | KT Corporation |
| Verdict | HyperCLOVA X is Korea's answer to the frontier labs — an LLM tuned for Korean language and culture rather than translated into it, with a Korean-optimized tokenizer that runs faster and cheaper on Korean text. THINK, DAS... |
Mi:dm is KT's bet that a telecom-scale Korean LLM beats importing one. The MIT-licensed Mi:dm 2.0 Base (11.5B) was the first Korean commercial-grade open model over 10B parameters, and it holds its own against EXAONE-3.5... |
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