Maritaca AI (Sabiá) vs ChatGPT

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Maritaca AI (Sabiá) Brazilian Portuguese LLMs beating GPT on Brazil's bar exam and ENEM Visit ChatGPT The most widely used AI assistant — now on GPT-5.6, from OpenAI Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.4 / 10 9.2 / 10
Capability 6 9.5
Value for money 7 9
Ease of use 7 9.5
ASEAN readiness 4 8.5
API quality 7 9
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier GPT-5-class model with daily message limits
Paid from $20/month (Plus); free, Go, Pro, and Team/Enterprise tiers also offered
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users ~900M weekly active users (1B+ monthly active app users as of mid-2026)
Founded 2022
Maker OpenAI
Verdict

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...

ChatGPT is still the default AI assistant, and the July 2026 release of GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra and Luna tiers) keeps the flagship current across writing, coding and agentic work. No rival matches its feature breadth — voice...

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