CyberAgentLM vs LightOn (Paradigm)

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 Visit LightOn (Paradigm) Sovereign on-prem GenAI platform for regulated European enterprises Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.4 / 10 6.1 / 10
Capability 8 6
Value for money 9.5 6
Ease of use 5.5 6
ASEAN readiness 5 5
API quality 4 7
Pricing Open Source Enterprise
Free tier All weights free to download and use commercially under Apache 2.0 (CALM2/CALM3)
Paid from No paid tier — fully open-weights; compute costs are the user's own
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users Community adoption via Hugging Face downloads across the model family
Founded 1998
Maker CyberAgent, Inc.
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...

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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