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InkubaLM
InkubaLM is Lelapa AI’s compact multilingual language model for five African languages and resource-constrained deployments.
In inglese
InkubaLM-0.4B is a 400-million-parameter autoregressive language model trained for isiZulu, Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili, and isiXhosa, with English and French included in its training data. It supports text generation and downstream NLP tasks through zero-shot or few-shot learning.
Researchers and developers can use it for translation, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, question answering, and topic classification. It supports CPU, GPU, and multi-GPU deployment, including laptops. Lelapa describes it as a foundational model rather than production-ready software; no InkubaLM pricing was listed on the official pricing page.
Features
- Supports isiZulu, Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili, and isiXhosa
- 400-million-parameter autoregressive language model
- Supports zero-shot and few-shot text generation
- Supports machine translation and question answering
- Supports sentiment analysis and named entity recognition
- Supports part-of-speech tagging and topic classification
- Runs on CPU, GPU, and multi-GPU systems
- Open-source model availability
Use cases
- Build NLP applications for low-resource African languages
- Fine-tune the model for translation and classification tasks
- Run multilingual language applications on laptops or local servers
- Create question-answering tools for African-language users
- Experiment with compressed models for constrained environments
Pros
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Latest updates
- Africa's First Multilingual Small Language Model (SLM) Gets Even Smaller — Thanks to Top African Innovators
InkubaLM achieved a 75% size reduction while preserving performance through the Buzuzu-Mavi Challenge.
- InkubaLM: A Small Language Model for Low-Resource African Languages
Lelapa AI introduces InkubaLM, a 400M parameter model designed to serve African communities without requiring extensive resources.
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Pricing
- Starting price
- $9.99/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-09-24
Dev Pass
- $9.99 /mo
- $119.88 /yr
- For developers exploring and prototyping with Vulavula.
- 1,000 API calls / month
- Transcribe & Translate
SMME Pass
- $39.99 /mo
- $411.60
- For small and medium businesses scaling their usage.
- 10,000 API calls / month
- Transcribe & Translate
Enterprise Pass
Price on request
- For organisations with large-scale multilingual needs.
- 500,000+ API calls / month
- Transcribe & Translate
- Lower per-call cost
- No rate limits