PLaMo (Preferred Networks) vs ELYZA
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
PLaMo (Preferred Networks)
PFN's from-scratch Japanese LLM, now in Japan's government AI stack
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ELYZA
Japan's Japanese-first LLM — from U Tokyo's Matsuo Lab, backed by KDDI
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Enterprise |
| Free tier | — | Free demo ended May 2026; open-weight models freely downloadable on Hugging Face |
| Paid from | — | Enterprise contract only — no public pricing; contact sales via elyza.ai |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | ~110K users in 11 days at ELYZA Pencil launch (2022); enterprise B2B focus since |
| Founded | — | 2018 |
| Maker | — | KDDI Corporation |
| Verdict | PLaMo is one of the few Japanese LLM efforts built genuinely from scratch rather than fine-tuned on a Western base, and it's now backed by government validation: the Digital Agency rolled PLaMo Translate into its interna... |
ELYZA has the cleanest academic-to-enterprise pipeline among Japan's domestic LLM shops: University of Tokyo Matsuo Lab research, a 2024 KDDI majority buy-in (53.4% combined stake), and production deployments that aren't... |
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