Typhoon (ไต้ฝุ่น) by SCB 10X
Thailand's most-downloaded open Thai LLM; free API in beta
Overview
Typhoon is SCB 10X's open-source Thai LLM family — text, OCR, speech and medical-reasoning variants — the most-downloaded Thai model suite on Hugging Face. Its API is currently a free, rate-limited research beta while a production tier moves to AWS.
Pricing
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ASEAN Perspective
Typhoon (ไต้ฝุ่น) by SCB 10X in Southeast Asia
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Typhoon remains the default pick for Thai-language work: the Hugging Face suite jumped from 330K to 6M downloads in 2025, and the free API handled about 14 million calls and 320 million tokens last year. It's wider than a single chatbot too, covering OCR, ASR, medical reasoning and translation, and SCBX's OPDC government pilot shows real institutional buy-in beyond hobbyist downloads.
The catch is production readiness. The old Together AI-hosted Typhoon 2 API Pro shut down at the end of 2025, and the promised AWS-native replacement was still pending as of mid-2026 — for now, the API is officially a rate-limited "research showcase" with no uptime guarantee. Great for prototyping and academic use, riskier to build a paying product on until the AWS tier actually ships.
What people say
Six million Hugging Face downloads in 2025, up from 330K the year before — Typhoon's growth curve is the strongest signal that Thailand's open-model bet paid off. SCB 10X's family spans 1B to 70B parameter text models plus dedicated OCR, real-time Isan/Thai speech recognition and a medical-reasoning variant, and it now sits alongside NVIDIA NIM, Ollama, OpenRouter and Float16 as a distribution channel — evidence developers are actually deploying it, not just downloading weights to look at.
Institutional traction backs up the numbers. SCBX partnered with Thailand's Office of the Public Sector Development Commission on a government chatbot, and the team has run workshops at KMITL, CMKL, Mahidol and other universities, plus research ties to Stanford and VISTEC. Discord membership more than tripled to roughly 1,300 users over 2025.
Where it gets messier is the API. The paid, Together AI-hosted Typhoon 2 API Pro — the thing that made Typhoon look production-ready — was sunset on December 31, 2025. What's left is a free, rate-limited endpoint that Typhoon's own documentation calls a "research showcase" still in beta, with no formal support and no warranty. A next-generation AWS-hosted API was slated for Q1 2026; as of mid-2026 there's no public confirmation it's live with real pricing. Teams evaluating Typhoon for anything beyond a pilot should budget for that gap or plan to self-host the open weights.
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