Maritaca AI (Sabiá) vs MiniMax Hailuo 海螺AI

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

Maritaca AI (Sabiá) Brazilian Portuguese LLMs beating GPT on Brazil's bar exam and ENEM Visit MiniMax Hailuo 海螺AI MiniMax's consumer AI suite — chat, voice, video, now a public company Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.4 / 10 7.3 / 10
Capability 6 8
Value for money 7 8
Ease of use 7 7
ASEAN readiness 4 5
API quality 7 6
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier
Paid from Free tier (a few short watermarked clips/day, no card)
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users Android app 13M+ installs, ~70K ratings (~4.06/5 on Google Play)
Founded 2021
Maker
Verdict

Maritaca started in October 2022, a month before ChatGPT, as a Unicamp research spinout under CEO Rodrigo Nogueira, and it's stayed narrowly focused: Portuguese, Brazilian law, and Brazilian exams. Sabiá models are bench...

MiniMax is a public company now — listed in Hong Kong in January 2026 — and Hailuo is its consumer face: chat, voice, and the video generator that keeps topping physics benchmarks. Hailuo 2.3 produces motion quality West...

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