Shortwave vs Agnes AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Shortwave
AI-native email client rebuilt on top of Gmail
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Agnes AI
SEA-built AI workspace with its own 8B open-source SeaLLM model
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — |
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| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
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| Verdict | Among AI email clients, Shortwave is the polished one. It sits on top of Gmail and adds summaries, natural-language search, context-aware drafting, scheduling and an assistant that's steadily getting better at triaging a... |
Agnes AI is the most credible homegrown case for a Southeast Asian model company right now: instead of just reselling access to OpenAI or Anthropic, Sapiens AI shipped Agnes-SeaLLM-8B, an open-weights 8B model on Hugging... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.