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Best Korean LLM for cost-sensitive use
Token price, Korean token efficiency, and lightweight hosting matter most.
✦ Recommended
Trillion 7B
Lightweight open model minimizes self-host cost with solid Korean benchmarks.
KOBEST 0.795 (top tier); strong Korean nuance for its size.
Runner-up
A.X 4.0
KMMLU 78.3 (> GPT-4o 72.5); ~33% better Korean token efficiency than GPT-4o.
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