Apertus vs Pleias
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Apertus
Switzerland's fully open LLM: weights, data and training recipes all p...
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Pleias
Open training data and small models, now with enterprise data tools
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 6 / 10 |
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| ASEAN readiness | — | |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Apache 2.0 weights free on Hugging Face; free chat via Public AI; Swiss hosts such as Swisscom and Infomaniak charge per token | Common Corpus, SYNTH and all Pleias models are free to download under open licences (models Apache-2.0); Synth and Stratum are in beta with no published prices |
| Paid from | — | $0 for open models and datasets, Synth and Stratum pricing unpublished (beta, by demo) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2025 | 2023 |
| Maker | Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS) | — |
| Verdict | Apertus is the model to pick when provenance matters more than leaderboard rank: weights, data and recipes are public, web opt-outs were honoured retroactively, and Apache 2.0 allows commercial use. Version 1.5 closed re... |
Pleias' durable contribution is Common Corpus, a 2.27-trillion-token pretraining dataset built only from public-domain and permissively licensed text and accepted as an oral at ICLR 2026. Its small Apache-2.0 models suit... |
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