ExaWizards exaBase AI vs ELYZA
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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Japanese-first LLMs and a no-code AI app builder, from a KDDI subsidia...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Usage_based | Freemium |
| Free tier | No free plan; a one-week free trial on application | Open-weight models free to download on Hugging Face (Llama 2, Llama 3 or Apache 2.0 licences); no free ELYZA Works plan |
| Paid from | ¥900/user/month excl. tax, plus usage charges on Standard and Premium models | ¥980 per account a month before tax (ELYZA Works Light, minimum 20 accounts) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 50,000+ users across 550 companies (exaBase Generative AI, July 2024) | ~110K users in 11 days at ELYZA Pencil launch (2022); enterprise B2B focus since |
| Founded | 2023 | 2018 |
| Maker | Exa Enterprise AI Inc. (ExaWizards Inc., TSE: 4259) | KDDI Corporation |
| Verdict | exaBase AI is a sensible buy for a Japanese company that wants several frontier models under one contract, with retrieval over its own files, prompt templates, agents and the controls a compliance team asks for, all proc... |
ELYZA is one of Japan's more credible domestic LLM developers: open-weight Japanese models, including Apache 2.0 reasoning models released in October 2026, a 70B model selected for the Digital Agency's government AI tria... |
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