Upstage Solar vs Maritaca AI (Sabiá)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Upstage Solar
South Korea's frontier LLM — compact, multilingual, KOSPI-bound
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Maritaca AI (Sabiá)
Brazilian Portuguese LLMs beating GPT on Brazil's bar exam and ENEM
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free credits on sign-up; Solar Pro 3 was free until March 2, 2026 | — |
| Paid from | Solar Pro 2/3: $0.15/1M input tokens, $0.60/1M output tokens; Explore tier from $100/mo | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | ~239 employees; enterprise customers across KR, JP, US, TH | — |
| Founded | 2020 | — |
| Maker | Upstage Co., Ltd. | — |
| Verdict | Solar Pro 2 did something unusual for a 31B model: it out-scored GPT-4.1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the first Korean-built LLM to hit frontier status by that measure. Solar Pro 3 (January 2026) double... |
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... |
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