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.

Aira 2 Portuguese 1.7B

• Name:  Aira 2 Portuguese 1.7B
• Release date: Oct 10, 2024
• License: RAIL License
• Size: 1.7B
• Base model: BLOOM
• Knowledge cutoff date: Oct 10, 2024 or earlier
• Team: Nicholas Kluge
• Training data: Instruct-Aira Dataset (Portuguese subset)
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: Aira-2-portuguese-1B7
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: no

Alpaca-LoRA-PTBR

• Name:  Alpaca-LoRA-PTBR
• Release date: Mar 18, 2023
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Llama 1
• Knowledge cutoff date: September 2022 or later
• Team: Maicon Domingues
• Training data: Stanford Alpaca (automatically translated)
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: alpaca-lora-ptbr-7b
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: no

Amadeus-Verbo

• • Name: Amadeus-Verbo
  • Release date: Jun 3, 2025
  • License: apache-2.0
  • Team: Amadeus AI
  • Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
  • Associated API: no
  • Online chat: no

Amadeus-Verbo BI

• • Name: Amadeus-Verbo BI
  • Base model: Qwen2.5 Base

Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-14B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name:  Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-14B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 15B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-14B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-1.5B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name:  Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-1.5B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 2B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-1.5B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-32B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-32B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 33B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-32B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-3B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-3B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 3B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-3B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-72B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-72B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 73B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-72B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-7B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-7B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 8B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-BI-Qwen-2.5-7B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo FI

• • Name: Amadeus-Verbo FI
  • Base model: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct

Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-14B-PT-BR-Instruct

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-14B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Size: 15B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-14B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-1.5B-PT-BR-Instruct

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-1.5B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Size: 2B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-1.5B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-32B-PT-BR-Instruct

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-32B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Size: 33B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-32B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-3B-PT-BR-Instruct

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-3B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Size: 3B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-3B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-72B-PT-BR-Instruct

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-72B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Size: 73B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-72B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-7B-PT-BR-Instruct

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-7B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Size: 8B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-FI-Qwen2.5-7B-PT-BR-Instruct
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo MI

• • Name: Amadeus-Verbo MI
  • Base model: Qwen2.5 Instruct

Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-14B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-14B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 15B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-14B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-1.5B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-1.5B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 2B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-1.5B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-32B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-32B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 33B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-32B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-3B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-3B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 3B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-3B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-72B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-72B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 73B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-72B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-7B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental

• Name: Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-7B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Size: 8B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: amadeusai/Amadeus-Verbo-MI-Qwen-2.5-7B-PT-BR-Instruct-Experimental
• Weight availability: yes

Amazônia IA

• Name: Amazônia IA
• Release date: Aug 5, 2024
• License: proprietary
• Size: —
• Base model: —
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Team:
  • Widelabs
  • Oracle
  • NVIDIA
• Training data: —
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: —
• Weight availability: no
• Associated API: pending
• Online chat: yes

Amália

• Name: Amália
• Release date: future
• License: —
• Size: 9B
• Base model: —
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Team:
  • Governo de Portugal
  • NOVA FCT
  • IST-UL
• Training data: —
• Language variety: European Portuguese
• Model ID: —
• Weight availability: pending
• Associated API: pending
• Online chat: no

Boana 7B Instruct

• Name: Boana 7B Instruct
• Release date: Jan 23, 2024
• License: Academic Free License v3.0
• Size: 7B
• Base model: LLaMA 2 7B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Team: Leonardo Rodrigues
• Training data: —
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: boana-7b-instruct
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: no

Bode

• • Name: Bode
  • Release date: Oct 11, 2023
  • License: MIT
  • Base model: Llama 2
  • Knowledge cutoff date: July 2023or later
  • Team: Recogna
  • Training data: Portuguese-language subset of mC4
  • Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
  • Weight availability: yes
  • Associated API: no
  • Online chat: no

Bode 7B

• Name: Bode 7B
• Size: 7B
• Model ID: bode-7b-alpaca-pt-br

Bode 13B

• Name: Bode 13B
• Size: 13B
• Model ID: bode-13b-alpaca-pt-br

Boto

• Name: Boto
• Release date: Jul 11, 2024
• License: Apache 2.0
• Size: 9B
• Base model: Gemma2-9B
• Knowledge cutoff date: April 2024or later
• Team: Luciano Santa Brígida
• Training data:
  • Open-Orca (translated to Portuguese)
  • Dolphin (translated to Portuguese)
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: lucianosb/boto-9B
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: no

Cabra

• • Name: Cabra
  • Team: BotBot.AI
  • Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
  • Associated API: no
  • Online chat: no

Cabra 13B

• Name: Cabra 13B
• Release date: August 2023
• License: Llama 2 Community License
• Size: 13B
• Base model: Llama 2 13B
• Knowledge cutoff date: August 2023or earlier
• Training data: PortugueseDolly
• Model ID: cabra13b
• Weight availability: yes

Cabra 72B

• Name: Cabra 72B
• Release date: Jun 20, 2024
• License: Qwen 1.5 License
• Size: 72B
• Base model: Qwen 1.5 72B
• Knowledge cutoff date: Jun 20, 2024or earlier
• Training data: Cabra 30k (internal dataset)
• Model ID: Cabra-72b
• Weight availability: yes

Cabra (Llama 2 7B)

• Name: Cabra (Llama 2 7B)
• Release date: August 2023
• License: Llama 2 Community License
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Llama 2 7B
• Knowledge cutoff date: August 2023or earlier
• Training data: PortugueseDolly
• Model ID: Cabra
• Weight availability: yes

Cabra Llama 3 70B

• Name: Cabra Llama 3 70B
• Release date: Jun 20, 2024
• License: Llama 3 Community License
• Size: 70B
• Base model: Meta Llama 3
• Knowledge cutoff date: Jun 20, 2024or earlier
• Training data: Cabra 30k (internal dataset)
• Model ID: CabraLlama3-70b
• Weight availability: yes

Cabra Llama 3 8B

• Name: Cabra Llama 3 8B
• Release date: Jun 20, 2024
• License: Llama 3 Community License
• Size: 8B
• Base model: Meta Llama 3
• Knowledge cutoff date: Jun 20, 2024or earlier
• Training data: Cabra 30k (internal dataset)
• Model ID: CabraLlama3-8b
• Weight availability: yes

Cabra Mistral 7B

• Name: Cabra Mistral 7B
• Release date: July 2024
• License: Research only – non commercial use
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Mistral 7B Instruct 0.2
• Knowledge cutoff date: July 2024or earlier
• Training data: Cabra 10k (internal dataset)
• Model ID: CabraMistral7b
• Weight availability: yes

Cabra Mistral v3 7B 32k

• Name: Cabra Mistral v3 7B 32k
• Release date: May 2024
• License: Research only – non commercial use
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Mistral 7B Instruct 0.3
• Knowledge cutoff date: May 2024or earlier
• Training data: Cabra 12k (internal dataset)
• Model ID: CabraMistral-v3-7b-32k
• Weight availability: yes

Cabra Mixtral 8x7B

• Name: Cabra Mixtral 8x7B
• Release date: July 2024
• License: Research only – non commercial use
• Size: 47B
• Base model: Mistral 8x7B
• Knowledge cutoff date: July 2024or earlier
• Training data: Cabra 30k (internal dataset)
• Model ID: CabraMixtral-8x7b
• Weight availability: yes

Cabra Qwen 14B

• Name: Cabra Qwen 14B
• Release date: March 2024
• License: Qwen 1.5 License
• Size: 14B
• Base model: Qwen 1.5 14B
• Knowledge cutoff date: March 2024or earlier
• Training data: Cabra 10k (internal dataset)
• Model ID: CabraQwen14b
• Weight availability: yes

Cabra Qwen 7B

• Name: Cabra Qwen 7B
• Release date: March 2024
• License: Qwen 1.5 License
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Qwen 1.5 7B
• Knowledge cutoff date: March 2024or earlier
• Training data: Cabra 10k (internal dataset)
• Model ID: CabraQwen7b
• Weight availability: yes

Canarim

• • Name: Canarim
  • Release date: Nov 17, 2023
  • License: Llama 2 Community License
  • Size: 7B
  • Base model: Llama 2
  • Knowledge cutoff date: July 2023or later
  • Team: Maicon Domingues
  • Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
  • Associated API: no
  • Online chat: no

Canarim Instruct

• Name: Canarim Instruct
• Training data: CC-MAIN-2023-23
• Model ID: Canarim-7B-Instruct
• Weight availability: yes

Canarim VestibulAide

• Name: Canarim VestibulAide
• Training data: Provas de vestibulares
• Model ID: Canarim-7B-VestibulAide
• Weight availability: yes

Caramelo

• Name: Caramelo
• Release date: Jun 9, 2023
• License: Apache 2.0
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Falcon-7B
• Knowledge cutoff date: June 2023or later
• Team: Bruno Henrique
• Training data: Cleaned Alpaca (automatically translated)
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: Bruno/Caramelo_7B
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: no

Carvalho

• • Name: Carvalho
  • License: Llama 3.1 Community License
  • Team:
    • CiTIUS
    • ILG-USC
  • Training data:
    • CorpusNOS
    • Arquivo.pt
  • Language varieties: Galician+European Portuguese
  • Weight availability: yes
  • Associated API: no
  • Online chat: no

Carvalho_pt-gl-1.3B

• Name: Carvalho_pt-gl-1.3B
• Release date: March 2024
• Size: 1.3B
• Base model: Cerebras-GPT
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Model ID: Carvalho_pt-gl-1.3B

Llama-Carvalho-GL

• Name: Llama-Carvalho-GL
• Release date: March 2025
• Size: 8B
• Base model: Llama 3.1
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Model ID: Llama-Carvalho-GL

Llama-Carvalho-PT

• Name: Llama-Carvalho-PT
• Release date: January 2025
• Size: 8B
• Base model: Llama 3.1
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Model ID: Llama-Carvalho-PT

Llama-Carvalho-PT-GL

• Name: Llama-Carvalho-PT-GL
• Release date: January 2025
• Size: 8B
• Base model: Llama 3.1
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Model ID: Llama-Carvalho-PT-GL

Cocoruta

• • Name: Cocoruta
  • Team: C4AI-USP
  • Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
  • Associated API: no
  • Online chat: no

Cocoruta 1

• Name: Cocoruta 1
• Release date: Oct 28, 2023
• License: Llama 2 Community License
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Llama 2
• Knowledge cutoff date: 2023
• Training data: —
• Model ID: cocoruta-7b
• Weight availability: yes

Cocoruta 2

• Name: Cocoruta 2
• Release date: Feb 10, 2025
• License: Llama 3.1 Community License
• Size: 8B
• Base model: Llama 3.1
• Knowledge cutoff date: 2025
• Training data: —
• Model ID: cororuta-2-8b
• Weight availability: yes

Gaia

• Name: Gaia
• Release date: May 2024
• License: Gemma
• Size: 4B
• Base model: Gemma 3 4B
• Knowledge cutoff date: September 2024
• Team: CEIA-UFG
• Training data: —
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: Gemma-3-Gaia-PT-BR-4b-it
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: no

Gervásio

• • Name: Gervásio
  • Team: Portulan Clarin
  • Associated API: no

Gervásio 7B PTBR

• Name: Gervásio 7B PTBR
• Release date :Feb 28, 2024
• License: MIT
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Llama 2
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data:
  • GLUE
  • SuperGLUE
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: gervasio-7b-portuguese-ptbr-decoder
• Weight availability: yes
• Online chat: no

Gervásio 8B PTPT

• Name: Gervásio 8B PTPT
• Release date: Jun 11, 2025
• License: MIT
• Size: 8B
• Base model: LLaMA 3.1
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Language variety: European Portuguese
• Model ID: gervasio-8b-portuguese-ptpt-decoder
• Weight availability: yes
• Online chat: yes

GlórIA

• Name: GlórIA
• Release date: Feb 26, 2024
• License: ClueWeb22 Dataset License
• Size: 1.3B
• Base model: GPT-Neo
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Team: NOVA FCT
• Training data: —
• Language variety: European Portuguese
• Model ID: GlorIA-1.3B
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: no

Juru

• Name: Juru
• Release date: Jun 29, 2025
• License: —
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Mistral
• Knowledge cutoff date: 2024
• Team: Roseval Malaquias Junior
• Training data: —
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: Juru-7B
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: no

L³M

• Name: L³M
• Release date: future
• License: proprietary
• Size: —
• Base model: —
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Team:
  • NeuralMind
  • Escavador
• Training data: —
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: —
• Weight availability: no
• Associated API: pending
• Online chat: no

openCabrita

• Name: openCabrita
• Release date: Jul 6, 2023
• License: Apache 2.0
• Size: 3B
• Base model: Llama 1
• Knowledge cutoff date: September 2022or later
• Team: —
• Training data: Portuguese-language subset of mC4
• Language varieties: —
• Model ID: open-cabrita3b
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: no

Periquito-3b

• Name: Periquito-3b
• Release date: Sep 20, 2023
• License: Apache 2.0
• Size: 4B
• Base model: LLaMA 3B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Team: Wandemberg Gibaut
• Training data: Portuguese Wikipedia
• Language varieties: —
• Model ID: wandgibaut/periquito-3B
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: no

Sabiá

• • Name: Sabiá
  • Team: Maritaca AI

Sabiá-3

• • Name: Sabiá-3
  • Release date: April 2024
  • License: proprietary
  • Knowledge cutoff date: 2023
  • Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
  • Weight availability: no
  • Associated API: yes
  • Online chat: yes

Sabiá-3

• Name: Sabiá-3
• Size: —
• Base model: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: sabia-3

Sabiazinho-3

• Name: Sabiazinho-3
• Size: —
• Base model: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: sabiazinho-3

Sabiá-3.1

• Name: Sabiá-3.1
• Release date: May 2025
• License: proprietary
• Size: —
• Base model: —
• Knowledge cutoff date: August 2024
• Training data: —
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: sabia-3.1
• Weight availability: no
• Associated API: yes
• Online chat: yes

Sabiá-7B

• Name: Sabiá-7B
• Release date: Nov 8, 2023
• License: LLaMA License
• Size: 7B
• Base model: Llama 1
• Knowledge cutoff date: 2022
• Training data: —
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: sabia-7b
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: yes

Samba

• Name: Samba
• Release date: —
• License: Academic Free License v3.0
• Size: 1B
• Base model: TinyLlama-1.1B
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Team: Leonardo Souza
• Training data: —
• Language varieties: —
• Model ID: lrds-code/samba-1.1B
• Weight availability: yes
• Associated API: no
• Online chat: no

SoberanIA

• Name: SoberanIA
• Release date: —
• License: —
• Size: —
• Base model: —
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Team: Governo do Piauí
• Training data: —
• Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
• Model ID: —
• Weight availability: pending
• Associated API: pending
• Online chat: pending

Tucano

• • Name: Tucano
  • Release date: Nov 7, 2024
  • License: Apache 2.0
  • Team: Tucano project
  • Language variety: Brazilian Portuguese
  • Weight availability: yes
  • Associated API: no
  • Online chat: no

Tucano-1b1-Instruct

• Name: Tucano-1b1-Instruct
• Size: 1B
• Base model: —
• Knowledge cutoff date: —
• Training data: —
• Model ID: Tucano-1b1-Instruct

Tucano-2b4-Instruct

• Name: Tucano-2b4-Instruct
• Size: 2B
• Base model:—
• Knowledge cutoff date:—
• Training data:—
• Model ID:Tucano-2b4-Instruct

Contributors:

• Vinícius Bitencourt Matos
• Arnaldo Candido Junior
• Sarajane Marques Peres
• Filipe Bison de Souza