Agnes AI vs SEA-LION
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Agnes AI
Singapore model lab with a free multimodal API, paid Token Plans and o...
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SEA-LION
AI Singapore's open-weight LLMs tuned for Southeast Asian languages
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.1 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free API key: agnes-3.0-flash text, image 2.x flash and video 2.5 flash currently $0; text capped at 10 requests/min since 23 Sep 2026 | All weights free on Hugging Face; a free trial API key at 10 requests a minute for proofs of concept |
| Paid from | Token Plan from $4/mo ($40/yr); app plans from $2.99/mo on iOS; paid API models per token | No paid tier: production runs on cloud partners at their own rates |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | Hundreds to low-thousands of monthly Hugging Face downloads per variant |
| Founded | — | 2023 |
| Maker | Singapore Sapiens Technology Pte. Ltd. (Sapiens AI) | AI Singapore |
| Verdict | Agnes AI has turned from a consumer workspace into a model company with an unusual developer offer: an OpenAI-compatible API whose flash text, image and video models currently cost nothing, Token Plans from $4 a month, a... |
SEA-LION is the open model family to start with for Southeast Asian language work: regularly updated, MIT-licensed in its newest releases, and evaluated on SEA-HELM, the regional benchmark its own team maintains. The Sep... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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