LG EXAONE vs Maritaca AI (Sabiá)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
LG EXAONE
Korea's open vision-language AI — EXAONE 4.5 beats GPT-5-mini on STEM
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Maritaca AI (Sabiá)
Brazilian Portuguese LLMs beating GPT on Brazil's bar exam and ENEM
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Weights free for research, academic, and educational use via Hugging Face (NC licence) | — |
| Paid from | Commercial API via FriendliAI Serverless Endpoints (pay-per-token; contact FriendliAI for pricing) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | B2B-focused; deployed internally across LG product lines; research community access via Hugging Face | — |
| Founded | 2020 | — |
| Maker | LG Group (LG AI Research) | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
Maritaca started in October 2022, a month before ChatGPT, as a Unicamp research spinout under CEO Rodrigo Nogueira, and it's stayed narrowly focused: Portuguese, Brazilian law, and Brazilian exams. Sabiá models are bench... |
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