Kakao Brain (KoGPT) vs LG EXAONE
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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LG EXAONE
Korea's open vision-language AI — EXAONE 4.5 beats GPT-5-mini on STEM
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.2 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Weights and code free for non-commercial research (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 + Apache 2.0) | Weights free for research, academic, and educational use via Hugging Face (NC licence) |
| Paid from | No commercial API offered; contact [email protected] for licensing | Commercial API via FriendliAI Serverless Endpoints (pay-per-token; contact FriendliAI for pricing) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Thousands of Korean NLP researchers; 11 active Hugging Face Spaces | B2B-focused; deployed internally across LG product lines; research community access via Hugging Face |
| Founded | 2017 | 2020 |
| Maker | Kakao Corp | LG Group (LG AI Research) |
| Verdict | KoGPT earns its place as the pioneering open-source Korean LLM — it filled a genuine gap in 2021 and remains a cited baseline in peer-reviewed Korean NLP research. The 6B-parameter model delivers competitive zero-shot an... |
EXAONE 4.5, out in April 2026, moves LG AI Research's hybrid reasoning line into vision: a 33B model (32B language backbone plus a 1.2B vision encoder) that reads images alongside text and averages 77.3 across five STEM... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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