Maritaca AI (Sabiá) vs SB Intuitions (SoftBank 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 SB Intuitions (SoftBank AI) Japan's sovereign AI lab: SoftBank's LLM arm building Sarashina Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.4 / 10 7.2 / 10
Capability 6 7.5
Value for money 7 6.5
Ease of use 7 5.5
ASEAN readiness 4 4.5
API quality 7 6
Pricing Freemium 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

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...

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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