CyberAgentLM vs ELYZA
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
CyberAgentLM
Open Japanese LLMs from Japan's biggest ad group — Apache 2.0
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ELYZA
Japan's Japanese-first LLM — from U Tokyo's Matsuo Lab, backed by KDDI
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Enterprise |
| Free tier | All weights free to download and use commercially under Apache 2.0 (CALM2/CALM3) | Free demo ended May 2026; open-weight models freely downloadable on Hugging Face |
| Paid from | No paid tier — fully open-weights; compute costs are the user's own | Enterprise contract only — no public pricing; contact sales via elyza.ai |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | Community adoption via Hugging Face downloads across the model family | ~110K users in 11 days at ELYZA Pencil launch (2022); enterprise B2B focus since |
| Founded | 1998 | 2018 |
| Maker | CyberAgent, Inc. | KDDI Corporation |
| Verdict | CALM3-22B-Chat remains one of the stronger open-weight Japanese LLMs available, matching Meta's Llama-3-70B-Instruct on the Nejumi leaderboard at less than a third the parameter count — a genuinely good result for a 2024... |
ELYZA has the cleanest academic-to-enterprise pipeline among Japan's domestic LLM shops: University of Tokyo Matsuo Lab research, a 2024 KDDI majority buy-in (53.4% combined stake), and production deployments that aren't... |
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