CLOVA X (service ended)Discontinued

Name: CLOVA X (service ended)
Brand: NAVER

NAVER, South Korea, clova-x.naver.com

[Ended 2026-04-09] NAVER's AI chatbot specialized in Korean. Now replaced by the NAVER Search AI tab and others

Chatbot/Assistant

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CurrencyUSD KRW EUR

Personal starting price-No paid plan

Free tier-

Korean supportGood

Information updated 2026-10-21, source: clova-x.naver.com. Prices and benefits may change. Check the official site before you pay.

Some information has not yet been verified against official sources. Please check the official site before you pay.

Pros

Strong understanding of Korean language and culture
Integrated with NAVER services

Cons

Unavailable since the service ended on April 9, 2026
Chat history deleted

These are opinions compiled by Pickx from public sources.

Service ended: CLOVA X ended its service on April 9, 2026 (the search AI 'Cue:' ended the same day). Conversation history was deleted after the end and cannot be recovered. NAVER's generative AI is now offered through the 'AI tab' and 'AI Briefing' in NAVER Search, a shopping AI agent and more.

At a glance

CLOVA X was a Korean-specialized conversational AI chatbot that NAVER built on its own very large language model, HyperCLOVA X. It launched in beta in August 2023 and ended on April 9, 2026, about 2 years and 8 months later. NAVER changed direction to a 'vertical AI agent' strategy of putting AI inside existing services such as search, shopping and reservations instead of a standalone chatbot. To use NAVER AI now, use the AI tab in NAVER Search (officially launched for all users on June 26, 2026), or, if you are a developer, the HyperCLOVA X API in NAVER Cloud's CLOVA Studio.

Full model list

The models you could choose in the CLOVA X app no longer exist because the service ended. Below are the routes and models through which you can currently use HyperCLOVA X.

Model	Type	Features	Available plans
HyperCLOVA X (CLOVA X chatbot)	NAVER's own LLM	Chatbot model that was strong at understanding Korean language and culture Offering to general users stopped when CLOVA X ended on 2026-04-09	Ended
AI tab 'product-native LLM'	Service-specialized model based on HyperCLOVA X	Conversational search focused on shopping and reservations Connects from recommendations to reservations and payment Users cannot choose the model	NAVER Search users (whether it costs money cannot be confirmed officially)
HCX-007	HyperCLOVA X API (reasoning)	Latest default model in CLOVA Studio Supports step-by-step reasoning Input and output tokens billed separately	CLOVA Studio (pay-as-you-go)
HCX-005	HyperCLOVA X API (multimodal)	General-purpose model that understands image input Can be tuned (trained)	CLOVA Studio (pay-as-you-go)
HCX-DASH-002	HyperCLOVA X API (lightweight)	Fast, cheap lightweight model Suited to simple chat and classification Can be tuned	CLOVA Studio (pay-as-you-go)
HCX-003 HCX-DASH-001	HyperCLOVA X API (previous generation)	Previous-generation models Single-rate billing Skill sets are based on HCX-003	CLOVA Studio (pay-as-you-go)

Summary by plan

Plan	Price (monthly billing / annual billing)	What you can do	Usage limits	Features
CLOVA X free	Free (ended)	Cannot be used because the service ended on 2026-04-09	Not applicable (service ended)	Ran free to the end with no paid plan
NAVER AI tab AI Briefing	Official price unconfirmed At first only for NAVER Plus membership (NAVER's paid membership) Officially launched for all users on 2026-06-26	Conversational search focused on shopping and reservations AI summaries of search results	Not published officially	Effectively the successor to CLOVA X More a search and shopping helper than a general-purpose chatbot
CLOVA Studio (API)	Pay-as-you-go in Korean won per 1,000 tokens Check detailed unit prices in the NAVER Cloud price calculator	Call HCX-007/HCX-005/HCX-DASH-002 and others Tuning and skill sets	Not published officially	For companies and developers Unit prices are not shown on the official page, so amounts unconfirmed

Which plan for whom

CLOVA X free: The service has ended, so new use is not possible. If you need a general-purpose Korean chatbot, we recommend ChatGPT, Gemini, Wrtn and the like, and Perplexity if you need search with sources.
NAVER AI tab / AI Briefing: People who want to find restaurants, travel and shopping on NAVER and go straight to booking and buying. Strong on Korean local information.
CLOVA Studio (API): Developers at companies and public institutions for whom Korean-language performance and domestic data processing (sovereign AI) matter.

Notes

Information checked: 2026-10-12
Sources:
What could not be confirmed: We could not access the original official shutdown notice at clova-x.naver.com because access was blocked, and confirmed the shutdown through multiple news reports. Whether the AI tab is paid and the CLOVA Studio token unit prices also could not be confirmed on official pages.

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Prices converted at 1 USD = ₩1,327.84 (2026-10-20). Original price shown in brackets. Taxes as listed by each provider.