LightOn (Paradigm) vs SB Intuitions (SoftBank AI)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
LightOn (Paradigm)
Sovereign on-prem GenAI platform for regulated European enterprises
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.1 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Open-weight Sarashina2 models (MIT licence) free to download and self-host |
| Paid from | — | Enterprise Sarashina API pricing not publicly disclosed; contact sales |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | Enterprise-only API (Sarashina); open-weight models publicly available on Hugging Face |
| Founded | — | 2023 |
| Maker | — | SoftBank Corp. |
| Verdict | LightOn's pitch is straightforward: keep the model and the data on your own infrastructure. Paradigm bundles RAG, agents and access to curated open and in-house models behind one API, deployable on-prem or hybrid — the o... |
SB Intuitions is arguably the most strategically significant AI lab in Japan, backed by SoftBank's compute and a real government funding pipeline. The Sarashina2 family (7B-70B, MIT-licensed) is a legitimate benchmark fo... |
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