Rakuten AI 3.0 vs Shisa.ai
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Rakuten AI 3.0
Japan's largest homegrown LLM — government-backed, open-weight, built...
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Shisa.ai
Three-person Tokyo lab, open Japanese LLMs beating far bigger models
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 |
| Capability | — | |
| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
| API quality | — | |
| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free — Apache 2.0 open-weight model, download and self-host via Hugging Face | — |
| Paid from | No paid tier — open-weight, self-hosted only | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 1997 | — |
| Maker | Rakuten Group, Inc. | — |
| Verdict | What this is for: running a genuinely capable Japanese-English bilingual LLM for writing, coding, and document work, either self-hosted or as the model behind Rakuten's own consumer products. It's Japan's most prominent... |
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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