THaLLE vs OpenThai

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

THaLLE Kasikornbank tech arm's open-weight finance LLMs, now in Thai as well... Visit OpenThai Thailand's community-built open-weight Thai language models, renamed f... Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6 / 10 7 / 10
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Pricing Open Source Open Source
Free tier Free Apache 2.0 weights on Hugging Face (THaLLE-0.1-7B-fa, its GGUF build, THaLLE-0.2-ThaiLLM-8B-fa); self-hosted, no API or support Free weights on Hugging Face, Ollama and LM Studio; licence varies by model (Apache 2.0, Qwen, Llama 2 or NVIDIA terms)
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Has API ✗ ✗
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Free to use ✓ ✓
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Founded 2024 2023
Maker KBTG (Kasikorn Business-Technology Group) Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneur Association of Thailand (AIEAT)
Verdict

THaLLE is a well-documented research project rather than a product: open Apache 2.0 weights, three arXiv reports, and a 0.2 model that adds Thai and a reasoning mode to finance knowledge tested on CFA and Thai Investment...

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...

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