Kyutai (Moshi / Unmute) vs Sesame AI

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Kyutai (Moshi / Unmute) French nonprofit open-sourcing Moshi and Unmute real-time voice AI Visit Sesame AI Conversational-voice startup behind the viral Maya and Miles assistant... Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7 / 10 7.5 / 10
Capability 8
Value for money 9
Ease of use 4
ASEAN readiness 6
API quality 5
Pricing Open Source Freemium
Free tier Free and open source — self-host at no cost Free public web voice demo (Maya/Miles); open CSM-1B weights free to download under Apache 2.0.
Paid from
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users 1M+ early demo users
Founded 2023
Maker Brendan Iribe, Ankit Kumar, Ryan Brown
Verdict

Kyutai is the rare well-funded lab that actually ships open weights: Moshi, released in July 2024, was one of the first speech-native, full-duplex dialogue models, and Unmute lets you bolt real-time listening and speakin...

What this is for: Natural, emotionally expressive conversational speech — trying voice presence in a live demo or building on the open CSM speech model. Who this is for: Consumers curious about lifelike voice AI, and de...

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