Arabic AI APIs
Arabic models you can use through an API or hosted service.
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13 of 13 APIs
IFM · Inception42
Jais 3
Chat & writing
Open weights on Hugging Face
inception/jais-3
- Release / announcement
- 15 Oct 2026
- Official source
- Official source — af.net (opens in a new tab on af.net)
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
HUMAIN
humain-m3
Chat & reasoning
Preview via HUMAIN Node API; weights planned
humain/m3
- News published
- 3 Sep 2026
- Official source
- Official source — unite.ai (opens in a new tab on unite.ai)
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
Cohere
Cohere Transcribe Arabic
Speech to text
Apache 2.0 weights and Cohere API
cohere/transcribe-arabic
API docs (opens in a new tab on docs.cohere.com)Model download (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)- Documented repository availability
- 7 Jul 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
SILMA AI
SILMA TTS
Text to speech
Open weights; commercial voices
silma/tts
- Documented repository availability
- 13 Mar 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
TII
Falcon-H1 Arabic
Chat & long documents
Open weights (Falcon LLM License)
tii/falcon-h1-arabic
- Release / announcement
- 5 Jan 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
MBZUAI
Nile-Chat
Egyptian & Arabizi chat
Open weights on Hugging Face
mbzuai/nile-chat
- News published
- 17 Jun 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
NAMAA
Qari-OCR
Document OCR
Open weights on Hugging Face
namaa/qari-ocr
- Documented repository availability
- 10 Apr 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
Cohere
Command R7B Arabic
Chat & RAG
Open weights and Cohere API
cohere/command-r7b-arabic
API docs (opens in a new tab on docs.cohere.com)Model download (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)- Documented repository availability
- 27 Feb 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
Mistral AI
Mistral Saba
Chat & writing
Mistral API and on-prem
mistral/saba
- News published
- 17 Feb 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
NAMAA
AraModernBERT
Embeddings & search
Open weights on Hugging Face
namaa/aramodernbert
- Documented repository availability
- 1 Feb 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
QCRI
Fanar
Chat, speech, images
Fanar platform, cloud or on-prem
qcri/fanar
- Research paper published
- Jan 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
HUMAIN · SDAIA
ALLaM
Chat & writing
7B open; 34B via watsonx and Azure; Bedrock and Foundry announced
humain/allam
- Documented repository availability
- 10 Sep 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
MBZUAI
Atlas-Chat
Darija chat
Open weights on Hugging Face
mbzuai/atlas-chat
- Research paper published
- Sep 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
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