OpenThai vs Typhoon (ไต้ฝุ่น) by SCB DataX
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
OpenThai
Thailand's community-built open-weight Thai language models, renamed f...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free weights on Hugging Face, Ollama and LM Studio; licence varies by model (Apache 2.0, Qwen, Llama 2 or NVIDIA terms) | Open weights free on Hugging Face; free beta API (typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b and v2.1-12b, 200 requests a minute) after sign-up |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneur Association of Thailand (AIEAT) | SCB DataX |
| Verdict | OpenThai is the most active community source of open Thai models: a 27B multimodal flagship under Apache 2.0, a Thai legal model that already powers a working legal chatbot, and a tiny classifier that runs on a laptop. L... |
Typhoon is the default starting point for Thai-language AI: open models tuned for Thai text, OCR that reads Thai documents, and speech recognition that handles Isan as well as central Thai. By the team's own count it was... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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