Airavata vs Krutrim
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Airavata
India's first open instruction-tuned Hindi LLM, built by IIT Madras's...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 5.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Fully free — open weights on HuggingFace, no rate limits | Chat interface free at chat.olakrutrim.com; cloud free access ran until Diwali 2025 |
| Paid from | No paid tier; self-host or run via local inference (vLLM, Ollama, LM Studio) | On-demand NVIDIA A100/H100 GPUs (A100 listed from ~Rs 105/hr; confirm on Krutrim Cloud) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Research and developer community; open-weights model on HuggingFace | 25+ enterprise customers; consumer app reached ~100K downloads before withdrawal (Apr 2026) |
| Founded | 2020 | 2023 |
| Maker | AI4Bharat / IIT Madras (Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat) | Krutrim SI Designs Pvt. Ltd. (Ola Group) |
| Verdict | Airavata is a landmark academic contribution that demonstrates how a well-curated, license-clean instruction dataset can lift a 7B Hindi model above much larger commercial models on naturalness — a result that matters en... |
Krutrim made genuine history as India's first AI unicorn and its Krutrim-2 model delivers real multilingual capability across 22 Indian languages — benchmarking competitively against much larger open-source models on Ind... |
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