OpenThai vs Pathumma LLM vs ThaiLLM vs Typhoon (ไต้ฝุ่น) by SCB DataX
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
OpenThai
Thailand's community-built open-weight Thai language models, renamed f...
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Pathumma LLM
Thailand's government-built Thai model family for text, documents and...
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TL ThaiLLM Thailand's national open-weight Thai LLM, led by the Big Data Institut... Visit |
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | — | — | |
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| ASEAN readiness | — | — | — | |
| API quality | — | — | — | |
| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free weights on Hugging Face, Ollama and LM Studio; licence varies by model (Apache 2.0, Qwen, Llama 2 or NVIDIA terms) | Free model weights on Hugging Face, mostly Apache 2.0 but licences vary and two vision models declare none; API via AI for Thai with a key | Free Apache-2.0 weights on Hugging Face; free Playground and API (Google sign-in) — hosted outputs are non-commercial without BDI consent | Open weights free on Hugging Face; free beta API (typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b and v2.1-12b, 200 requests a minute) after sign-up |
| Paid from | — | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 | 2026 | 2023 |
| Maker | Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneur Association of Thailand (AIEAT) | NECTEC (NSTDA) | Big Data Institute (BDI), under Thailand's MDES | SCB DataX |
| Verdict | OpenThai is the most active community source of open Thai models: a 27B multimodal flagship under Apache 2.0, a Thai legal model that already powers a working legal chatbot, and a tiny classifier that runs on a laptop. L... |
Pathumma is the most complete public-sector Thai AI stack available: open text, vision, OCR and speech models plus ready-made tools for Thai documents and meeting transcripts, kept active through 2026 with OCR, reasoning... |
ThaiLLM gives Thailand a permissively licensed national model family, with Thai-tuned 8B and 30B bases and four instruction-tuned versions from respected Thai teams, plus medical fine-tunes developed with hospitals. It i... |
Typhoon is the default starting point for Thai-language AI: open models tuned for Thai text, OCR that reads Thai documents, and speech recognition that handles Isan as well as central Thai. By the team's own count it was... |
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