| Field | Typhoon (SCB 10X) | Ollama Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Ongoing free tier · perpetual | Ongoing free tier · renewing-quota |
| What's free | Free to use research showcase API — all Typhoon models at $0 | $0 Free plan: starter amount of cloud usage credits, limited to a smaller set of starter models; buying credits unlocks all cloud models |
| Rate limits | typhoon-asr-realtime: 100 reqs/minute (documented on the ASR page); LLM/OCR models: no published quotas (beta service) | 1 concurrent request on the free plan; included usage resets monthly from signup date (dollar amount of starter credits not published) |
| Expires | no expiry | no expiry |
| The catch | By SCB 10X, the venture arm of Siam Commercial Bank, focused on Thai-language models. The free catalog spans LLMs (typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instruct), OCR (typhoon-ocr family) and realtime Thai ASR (typhoon-asr-realtime, typhoon-isan-asr-realtime) — the hosted API is OpenAI-compatible, including audio transcriptions. Beta, provided as-is with no formal support; usage data is collected to improve the model; SCB claims no rights in outputs. Sign up for a free API key at opentyphoon.ai. | First-party — Ollama hosts the cloud models. Requires an ollama.com account + API key. The old 5-hour session / weekly limits are gone: usage is now credit-based with a monthly reset; Pro ($20/mo) includes $60 of credits. Prompts/responses are not logged or trained on. Whether a card is required is not stated on the current pricing page. |
| Credit card | not required | not confirmed |
| Phone verification | not required | not required |
| Commercial use | allowed | allowed |
| OpenAI-compatible | yeshttps://api.opentyphoon.ai/v1 | yeshttps://ollama.com/v1 |
| Modalities | text, audio | text, vision |
| Free models (sample) | typhoon-asr-realtime typhoon-isan-asr-realtime typhoon-ocr typhoon-ocr-preview typhoon-ocr-v1.5 typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instruct | no sample |
| Official docs | docs.opentyphoon.ai/en/faq/ | docs.ollama.com/cloud |
| Last verified | 2026-08-14 | 2026-10-08 |