Typhoon (ไต้ฝุ่น) by SCB DataX vs OpenThaiGPT vs ThaiLLM vs Pathumma LLM
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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OpenThaiGPT
Open-source Thai-centric large language model developed by Thailand's...
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TL ThaiLLM Thailand's free, open-weight national LLM for Thai law and context Visit |
Pathumma LLM
Thailand's open multimodal government LLM from NECTEC, handling Thai t...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 |
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| Ease of use | — | — | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — | — | |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | — | Free, Apache 2.0 licensed model weights available to download. | Free public Playground, developer API, and downloadable model weights | Free web app plus open downloadable models and a developer API. |
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| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Maker | SCB DataX | AI Entrepreneur Association of Thailand (AIEAT) | Big Data Institute (BDI) / NECTEC | NECTEC (NSTDA) |
| Verdict | Typhoon remains the default pick for Thai-language work: the Hugging Face suite jumped from 330K to 6M downloads in 2025, and the free API handled about 14 million calls and 320 million tokens last year. It's wider than... |
What this is for: A Thai-centric open LLM for chat and instruction-following tuned specifically for the Thai language. Who this is for: Thai developers, businesses and researchers wanting a permissively licensed local-l... |
ThaiLLM's real differentiator is what it was trained on and where it runs: Thai-language data processed entirely inside the country, which matters for anyone handling government or PDPA-sensitive data who doesn't want it... |
What this is for: A multimodal Thai LLM for text, image and speech, tuned for government and public-sector documents. Who this is for: Thai government agencies, developers and researchers needing localized multimodal AI... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.