Maritaca AI (Sabiá) vs Shisa.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 Shisa.ai Three-person Tokyo lab, open Japanese LLMs beating far bigger models Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.4 / 10 6.3 / 10
Capability 6 6.5
Value for money 7 7
Ease of use 7 6
ASEAN readiness 4 4.5
API quality 7 6
Pricing Freemium Freemium
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Free to use
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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...

Shisa.ai is the rare small lab whose benchmark claims hold up on inspection: its 405B model pulled over a million Hugging Face downloads in its first month, and the newer, much smaller V2.1-14B reportedly beats the older...

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