SEA-LION vs Llama
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
SEA-LION
AI Singapore's open-weight LLMs tuned for Southeast Asian languages
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Llama
Meta's downloadable LLM family, last updated with Llama 4 in April 202...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.2 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | All weights free on Hugging Face; a free trial API key at 10 requests a minute for proofs of concept | Free weight downloads (Llama 2, 3.x and 4) under Meta's Llama community licences, after accepting the licence |
| Paid from | No paid tier: production runs on cloud partners at their own rates | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Hundreds to low-thousands of monthly Hugging Face downloads per variant | 10m+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | AI Singapore | Meta Platforms |
| Verdict | SEA-LION is the open model family to start with for Southeast Asian language work: regularly updated, MIT-licensed in its newest releases, and evaluated on SEA-HELM, the regional benchmark its own team maintains. The Sep... |
Llama 2 and 3 made Meta's family the default starting point for self-hosted and fine-tuned models, and the weights from Llama 2 through Llama 4 remain free to download from Hugging Face and Kaggle. Llama 4 Scout and Mave... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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