SenseTime vs Upstage

SenseTime — Foundation Models · Public · $7.7B mkt cap · 4 of 5 figures sourced  |  Upstage — Foundation Models · Private · $958.8M valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

SenseNova and Solar LLMs do comparable work on code generation; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; smaller scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 14 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

3 of 14 capabilities — Shares code generation, model inference and text generation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application and model API.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — Upstage: $958.8M valuation, against SenseTime's $7.7B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldSenseTimeUpstage
Size$7.7B mkt cap$958.8M valuation different basis
Employees2,472100 Upstage has 25× fewer
Founded20142020 6 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryFoundation ModelsFoundation Models match
Stack layerApplication, Hardware, Infrastructure service, Model API, Platform, RobotAPI service, Agent platform, Application, Model API
HeadquartersShanghai, ChinaSeoul, South Korea

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Code generationModel inferenceText generation

Not verified for Upstage · 11

AI compute hardwareAvatar videoData analysisGPU cloudImage generationModel hostingModel trainingRobot controlVideo analyticsVideo editingVideo generation

Recorded for SenseTime. Upstage’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for SenseTime · 4

Agent orchestrationDocument extractionSearch answersWorkflow automation

Recorded for Upstage. SenseTime’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

SenseTime

Application

CapiApplication

SenseTime's AI-powered personal-finance assistant (the audit's candidate name 'Kapi Money' is a mistranscription of the real product, Capi, which the vendor's own announcement distinguishes from the similarly-named Kapi/Kapi Cam camera app).

Kapi CamApplication

AI-powered retro-style (Y2K/CCD) photo and video camera app, distinct from Capi (SenseTime's finance assistant) despite the similar name.

Kapi HealthApplication

AI-powered health-tracking companion app (sleep, HRV, activity strain and recovery) built on Apple HealthKit data, from the same publisher shell (TETRAS.AI HONGKONG CO., LIMITED) as the existing Kapi Cam and Kapi Money records.

Office Raccoon (RaccoonWork)Application

AI office productivity assistant (data analysis, AI-editable PPT generation, task planning) built on SenseTime's large language model, distributed via web, iOS app and an OpenClaw agent-skill integration.

Seko AgentApplication

AI video generation tool for creating and editing consistent multi-episode video series.

SenseAvatarApplication

Creates digital-human videos and livestreams from a source image/script.

Model API

SenseNovaModel API

SenseTime's foundation model family and the API platform that serves it.

Upstage

Application

Solar ChatApplication

Research-the-web chat assistant built on Upstage's Solar LLM family, answering questions with sources.

Upstage AI SpaceApplication

Document intelligence tool that extracts, drafts and reviews document-based work; referenced in a customer testimonial as helping brokers find answers across long documents.

Model API

Solar LLMsModel API

Upstage's family of agent-oriented language models -- Solar Pro 4 as a hosted API for terminal tasks, document workflows and multi-turn tool use, plus the open-weight Solar Open 2 (250B MoE, 15B active params) for self-hosting.

No counterpart

SenseTime sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Upstage yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

SenseFoundryPlatform

Computer-vision platform for city and enterprise deployments, covering video analysis, access control and traffic management.

Infrastructure service

Elastic Compute ServiceInfrastructure service

Rentable accelerated compute instances for AI development and inference on SenseCore.

Elastic Container PlatformInfrastructure service

Managed Kubernetes platform for running AI workloads on SenseCore.

SenseCoreInfrastructure service

SenseTime's AI compute service, providing training and inference capacity on its own data centres.

SenseScale SSPInfrastructure service

Manages heterogeneous AI development, training and inference compute across SenseCore's infrastructure.

Hardware

SenseMart GOHardware

Computer-vision-based automated retail checkout system.

SenseNebula PassHardware

Facial-recognition physical access-control system.

Robot

SenseRobotRobot

AI-powered chess (and board game) robot that teaches and plays against a human opponent, sold as a consumer hardware product on its own dedicated domain.

Upstage sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for SenseTime yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Document ParseAPI service

API that converts PDFs and scanned documents into structured, machine-readable layout and text.

Information ExtractAPI service

API that pulls named fields out of unstructured documents such as invoices, claims and contracts.

Agent platform

Upstage StudioAgent platform

Workspace for building and running document-processing agents from Upstage's parsing and extraction steps.