KT Mi:dm vs LG EXAONE
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
KT Mi:dm
KT's sovereign Korean-first LLM — MIT-licensed, enterprise-ready
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LG EXAONE
Korea's open vision-language AI — EXAONE 4.5 beats GPT-5-mini on STEM
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Mi:dm 2.0 Base (11.5B) and Mini (2.3B) free on Hugging Face (MIT) | Weights free for research, academic, and educational use via Hugging Face (NC licence) |
| Paid from | Enterprise Mi:dm Studio API — quote-based, contact KT (pricing not publicly disclosed) | Commercial API via FriendliAI Serverless Endpoints (pay-per-token; contact FriendliAI for pricing) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Enterprise clients undisclosed; KT Cloud serves ~650,000 companies | B2B-focused; deployed internally across LG product lines; research community access via Hugging Face |
| Founded | 1981 | 2020 |
| Maker | KT Corporation | LG Group (LG AI Research) |
| Verdict | Mi:dm is KT's bet that a telecom-scale Korean LLM beats importing one. The MIT-licensed Mi:dm 2.0 Base (11.5B) was the first Korean commercial-grade open model over 10B parameters, and it holds its own against EXAONE-3.5... |
EXAONE 4.5, out in April 2026, moves LG AI Research's hybrid reasoning line into vision: a 33B model (32B language backbone plus a 1.2B vision encoder) that reads images alongside text and averages 77.3 across five STEM... |
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