Brave Leo vs LightOn (Paradigm)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Brave Leo
AI assistant built into the Brave browser
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LightOn (Paradigm)
Sovereign on-prem GenAI platform for regulated European enterprises
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 6.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Enterprise |
| Free tier | Free: Llama 3.1 8B, Claude Haiku, Qwen 3 14B, GLM 4.7 Flash; no account required | — |
| Paid from | Leo Premium $14.99/mo ($149.99/yr) — Claude Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6, Kimi K2.5, DeepSeek | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | — |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | Leo has the best-designed privacy story in mainstream browser AI: no account, no chat retention, third-party models proxied through AWS Bedrock with zero data retention, and — since April 2026 — a local Ocelot model that... |
LightOn's pitch is straightforward: keep the model and the data on your own infrastructure. Paradigm bundles RAG, agents and access to curated open and in-house models behind one API, deployable on-prem or hybrid — the o... |
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