Apertus vs OLMo by AllenAI vs Pleias vs Latam-GPT
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Apertus
Switzerland's first large-scale sovereign LLM: fully open weights, dat...
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OLMo by AllenAI
Every step open: weights, training data, code and checkpoints
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Pleias
Small open LLMs trained only on permissively licensed data
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 | 6 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Fully open weights on Hugging Face; free hosted access via Swisscom and the Public AI Inference Utility | Free and open source — self-host at no cost | Free and open source — self-host at no cost | Free and open source — self-host at no cost |
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| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Founded | — | 2024 | — | — |
| Maker | Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL, ETH Zurich, CSCS) | — | — | — |
| Verdict | What this is for: A fully transparent, multilingual open LLM (8B and 70B) built as European sovereign infrastructure, with weights, data, and training recipes all published. Who this is for: Researchers, public institut... |
OLMo earns its 'radically open' label: not just weights but the full Dolma training corpus, the OLMo-core training code, every intermediate checkpoint, and the OLMES evaluation harness are all public. That's rare even am... |
Pleias takes the opposite bet from the frontier labs: instead of scraping everything and scaling up, it trains small (350M to 3B parameter) models exclusively on Common Corpus, its own roughly 2-trillion-token dataset of... |
Latam-GPT is a rare case of a government-and-academia-led open model that actually shipped weights instead of just holding a press conference — Llama-3.1-70B-LatamGPT-SFT-1.0 is live on Hugging Face, coordinated by Chile... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.