Language Models for Portuguese

List of models optimized for Portuguese (both Brazilian and European varieties), focusing on architectures with at least 1 billion parameters.

When appropriate, the models are grouped into “families”. The information presented for each model includes: name, release date, license, Portuguese variety, size, base model, weights, variations, training data, data cutoff date, associated API, online chat, and development team.

Click on the family name to access information about each language model variant.

Alpaca-LoRA-PTBR

Name: Alpaca-LoRA-PTBR
Release date: 2023-03-18
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 7B
Base model: Llama 1
Weights: yes
Variations: Alpaca-lora-ptbr-7b
Training data: Stanford Alpaca (automatically translated)
Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2022-09
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Maicon Domingues

Amadeus-Verbo

Name: Amadeus-Verbo
Release date: 2025-02-15
License: Apache 2.0
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 0.5B a 72B
Base model: Qwen 2
Weights: yes
Variations: 21 variações
Training data: (?)
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Amadeus

Amália

Name: Amália
Release date: (future)
License: (?)
Portuguese variety: Portugal
Size: 9B
Base model: (?)
Weights: (future)
Variations: (?)
Training data: (?)
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: (future)
Online chat: —
Team: Governo de Portugal, NOVA FCT, IST-UL

Amazônia IA

Name: Amazônia IA
Release date: 2024-08-05
License: Proprietary
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: (confidential)
Base model: (?)
Weights: no
Variations: —
Training data: (?)
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: (future)
Online chat: yes
Team: Widelabs, Oracle, NVIDIA

Bode

Name: Bode
Release date: 2023-10-11
License: MIT
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 7B e 13B
Base model: Llama 2
Weights: yes
Variations: Bode-7b-alpaca-pt-br, Bode-13b-alpaca-pt-br
Training data: Portuguese subset of mC4
Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2023-07
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Recogna

Boto

Name: Boto
Release date: 2024-07-11
License: Apache 2.0
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 9B
Base model: Gemma 2 9B
Weights: yes
Variations: Boto 9B it
Training data: Open-Orca and Dolphin (translated into Portuguese)
Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2024-04
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Luciano Santa Brígida

Canarim

Canarim Instruct

Name: Canarim Instruct
Release date: 2023-11-17
License: Llama 2 Community License
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 7B
Base model: Llama 2
Weights: yes
Variations: Canarim-7B-Instruct
Training data: CC-MAIN-2023-23
Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2023-07
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Maicon Domingues

Canarim VestibulAide

Name: Canarim VestibulAide
Release date: 2023-11-17
License: Llama 2 Community License
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 7B
Base model: Llama 2
Weights: yes
Variations: Canarim-7B-VestibulAide
Training data: College entrance exam tests
Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2023-07
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Maicon Domingues

Caramelo

Name: Caramelo
Release date: 2023-06-09
License: Apache 2.0
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 7B
Base model: Falcon 7B
Weights: yes
Variations: Caramelinho
Training data: Cleaned Alpaca (automatically translated)
Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2023-06
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Bruno Henrique

Carvalho_pt-gl

Name: Carvalho_pt-gl
Release date: 2024-03 até 2025-03
License: Llama 3.1 Community License
Portuguese variety: Galiza and Portugal
Size: 1.3B
Base model: Cerebras-GPT
Weights: yes
Variations: Llama-Carvalho-PT-GL, Carvalho_pt-gl-1.3B, Llama-Carvalho-PT, Llama-Carvalho-GL
Training data: CorpusNOS, BNE-gl, Arquivo.pt
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: CiTIUS and ILG-USC

Cocoruta

Name: Cocoruta
Release date: 2023-10-28
License: Llama 2 Community License
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 7B
Base model: Llama 2
Weights: yes
Variations: Cocoruta-7b
Training data: Brazilian environmental legislation
Data cutoff (training): 2023
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: KEML-C4AI (Felipe de Oliveira Espírito Santo)

Cocoruta 2

Name: Cocoruta 2
Release date: 2025-02-10
License: Llama 3.1 Community License
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 8B
Base model: Llama 3.1
Weights: yes
Variations: Cororuta-2-8b
Training data: Brazilian environmental legislation
Data cutoff (training): 2025
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: KEML-C4AI (Felipe de Oliveira Espírito Santo)

Gaia

Name: Gaia
Release date: 2024-05
License: Gemma
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 4B
Base model: Gemma 3 4B
Weights: yes
Variations: Gemma-3-Gaia-PT-BR-4b-it
Training data: Scientif Papers and Wikipédia
Data cutoff (training): 2024-09
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: CEIA-UFG

Gervásio

Gervásio 7B PTBR

Name: Gervásio 7B PTBR
Release date: 2024-02-28
License: MIT
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 7B
Base model: Llama 2
Weights: yes
Variations: Gervasio-7b-portuguese-ptbr-decoder
Training data: GLUE, SuperGLUE
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Portulan Clarin

Gervásio 8B PTPT

Name: Gervásio 8B PTPT
Release date: 2025-06-11
License: MIT
Portuguese variety: Portugal
Size: 8B
Base model: Lamma 3.1
Weights: yes
Variations: Gervasio-8b-portuguese-ptpt-decoder
Training data: extraGLUE-Instruct, MMLU PT, Natural Instructions, Wikipedia, Proverbs
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: —
Online chat: yes
Team: Portulan Clarin

Glória

Name: GlórIA
Release date: 2024-02-26
License: ClueWeb22 Dataset License
Portuguese variety: Portugal
Size: 1.3B
Base model: GPT-Neo
Weights: yes
Variations: GlorIA-1.3B
Training data: ClueWeb22 PTPT, OSCAR PTPT, ArquivoPT, OpenSubtitles PTPT, PTWiki, EuroParl PTPT
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Researches from NOVA FCT

Juru

Name: Juru
Release date: 2025-06-29
License: (?)
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 7B
Base model: Mistral
Weights: yes
Variations: Juru-7B
Training data: Academic papers in the Brazilian legal domain, LexML data, and documents from Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF)
Data cutoff (training): 2024
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Roseval Malaquias Junior

L³M

Name: L³M
Release date: (futuro)
License: Proprietary
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: (?)
Base model: (?)
Weights: no
Variations: (?)
Training data: Escavador
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: NeuralMind and Escavador

openCabrita

Name: openCabrita
Release date: 2023-07-06
License: Apache 2.0
Portuguese variety: (?)
Size: 3B
Base model: Llama 1
Weights: yes
Variations: Open-cabrita3b
Training data: Subconjunto em português do mC4
Data cutoff (training): ≥ 2022-09
Associated API: (futuro)
Online chat: —
Team: 22h

Periquito

Name: Periquito
Release date: 2023-09-20
License: Apache 2.0
Portuguese variety: Unspecified
Size: 3B
Base model: LLaMa 3B
Weights: yes
Variations: Periquito 3B i1 GGUF, Periquito 3B GGUF
Training data: Wikipedia in Portugues
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Wandemberg Gibaut

Sabiá

Sabiá-3

Name: Sabiá-3
Release date: 2024-04
License: Proprietary
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: (confidencial)
Base model: (confidencial)
Weights: não
Variations: Sabia-3, Sabiazinho-3
Training data: Public data from the internet
Data cutoff (training): 2023
Associated API: requires payment
Online chat: yes
Team: Maritaca AI

Sabiá-3.1

Name: Sabiá-3.1
Release date: 2025-05
License: Proprietary
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: (confidential)
Base model: (confidential)
Weights: no
Variations: Sabia-3.1
Training data: Public data from the internet
Data cutoff (training): 2024-08
Associated API: requires payment
Online chat: yes
Team: Maritaca AI

Sabiá-7B

Name: Sabiá-7B
Release date: 2023-11-08
License: LLaMA License
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 7B
Base model: Llama 1
Weights: yes
Variations: Sabia-7b
Training data: ClueWeb22
Data cutoff (training): 2022
Associated API: —
Online chat: yes
Team: Maritaca AI

Samba

Name: Samba
Release date: (?)
License: Academic Free License 3.0
Portuguese variety: Unspecified
Size: 1B
Base model: TinyLlama-1.1B
Weights: yes
Variations: Samba 1.1B GGUF and Angelinis/Outputs
Training data: (?)
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Leonardo Souza

SoberanIA

Name: SoberanIA
Release date: (future)
License: (?)
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: (?)
Base model: (?)
Weights: (future)
Variations: (?)
Training data: (?)
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: (future)
Online chat: (future)
Team: Government of Piauí

Tucano

Name: Tucano
Release date: 2024-11-07
License: Apache 2.0
Portuguese variety: Brazil
Size: 0.16B a 2B
Base model: (?)
Weights: yes
Variations: Tucano-1b1-Instruct, Tucano-2b4-Instruct
Training data: GigaVerbo
Data cutoff (training): (?)
Associated API: —
Online chat: —
Team: Tucano Project

Contributors:

Vinícius Bitencourt Matos
Arnaldo Candido Junior
Filipe Bison de Souza