Text & Chat Models

Powerful language models for conversation, analysis, and content generation

Text and chat models for production AI workloads

Large language models are the workhorse of modern AI: chatbots, agents, summarisers, classifiers, translators. The category is the most crowded on Railwail — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Meta, DeepSeek, xAI, and dozens of open-weights labs all compete here.

49 models available

Bio_ClinicalBERT

Text & Chathuggingface
Popular

The original Bio_ClinicalBERT from Alsentzer et al., a BERT model initialized from BioBERT and further pretrained on all MIMIC-III clinical notes. Served as a fill-mask endpoint it predicts masked tokens in clinical text and produces clinical embeddings. It is the standard encoder backbone behind many downstream clinical NLP fine-tunes.

€1.00
medicalresearchnlp

Biomedical NER (all entities)

Text & Chathuggingface
Popular

Token-classification model from d4data that tags 84 biomedical entity types in clinical and medical text, including disease, sign, symptom, medication, dosage, lab value, body part and procedure. Trained on the Maccrobat clinical case corpus on a DistilBERT base, so it runs cheaply for high-volume tagging.

€1.00
medicalresearchnlp

Claude Opus 4

Text & ChatAnthropic
NewPopular

Anthropic's most powerful model. Exceptional at complex analysis, agentic tasks, and extended reasoning.

Free5.0s
flagshipreasoningagentic

Claude Opus 4.8

Text & ChatAnthropic
NewPopular

Anthropic's most capable Opus-tier model. State of the art on long-horizon agentic work, coding and knowledge tasks, with a 1M-token context window at standard pricing.

Free
anthropicclaudeopus

Claude Sonnet 4

Text & ChatAnthropic
Popular

Anthropic's most capable model. Excellent for complex analysis, coding, math, and creative writing.

Free3.0s
popularcodinganalysis

DeepSeek V3.1

Text & ChatDeepSeek
Popular

DeepSeek's refreshed V3.1 release. 671B MoE / 37B active. Tops open-weights leaderboards on coding and reasoning.

Free
deepseekopen-weightsmoe

DeepSeek V4 Pro

Text & ChatDeepSeek
NewPopular

DeepSeek's April 2026 flagship. 1.6T MoE / 49B active params, 1M context, rivals top closed-source models on STEM and coding at a fraction of the price.

Free
deepseekopen-weightsmoe

Gemini 2.0 Flash

Text & ChatGoogle DeepMind
NewPopular

Google's fastest multimodal model. Supports text, images, audio, and video input.

Free1.2s
fastmultimodalaffordable

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Text & ChatGoogle DeepMind
NewPopular

Google's latest thinking model. Excels at reasoning, coding, math, and science with massive context window.

Free4.0s
reasoningcodingmultimodal

GPT-4.1

Text & ChatOpenAI
NewPopular

OpenAI's newest flagship model. Improved reasoning, instruction following, and coding over GPT-4o.

Free2.5s
popularcodingreasoning

GPT-4o

Text & ChatOpenAI
Popular

OpenAI's most capable multimodal model. Excellent for complex reasoning, coding, and creative tasks.

Free2.0s
popularfastmultimodal

GPT-5.5

Text & ChatOpenAI
NewPopular

OpenAI's current flagship chat model (released April 2026). Strongest general reasoning, coding and tool use in the GPT-5 line, with vision input and a large context window.

Free
openaigpt-5flagship

Grok 4

Text & ChatxAI
Popular

xAI's flagship reasoning model with vision and tool use. 256k context, strong at complex reasoning and STEM tasks.

Free
xaiflagshipreasoning

Grok 4.20 Reasoning

Text & ChatxAI
Popular

xAI's Grok 4.20 reasoning snapshot. Runs an extended thinking pass before answering for multi-step analysis, math and STEM, with a 1M token context window and strong agentic tool calling.

Free
xaigrokreasoning

Kimi K2 (Moonshot)

Text & ChatCustom
Popular

Moonshot AI's 1T-parameter MoE model. Industry-leading agentic coding and tool-use benchmarks.

Free
moonshotkimimoe

Medical NER (DeBERTa)

Text & Chathuggingface
Popular

Token-classification model that extracts 41 medical entity types from clinical text, such as disease, medication, dosage, frequency, lab test, sign and symptom. Fine-tuned on a DeBERTa v3 base, which gives more accurate spans than older BERT-based taggers on the same corpus.

€1.00
medicalresearchnlp

MiniMax-01

Text & ChatMinimax
Popular

MiniMax's 456B hybrid lightning-attention model with native 4M-token context. Industry-leading long-context.

Free
minimaxlong-contextlightning-attention

o3-mini

Text & ChatOpenAI
NewPopular

OpenAI's reasoning model optimized for STEM tasks, coding, and math. Uses chain-of-thought reasoning.

Free10.0s
reasoningcodingmath

Perplexity Sonar Pro

Text & ChatCustom
Popular

Perplexity's premium web-grounded search model with multi-step reasoning over live sources.

Free
perplexityweb-searchcitations

AI21 Jamba 1.5 Large

Text & ChatCustom

AI21's flagship hybrid Mamba-Transformer model with a 256k context window for long-document tasks.

Free
ai21long-contextmamba

AI21 Jamba 1.5 Mini

Text & ChatCustom

Cost-efficient hybrid Mamba-Transformer model with 256k context. Tuned for high-throughput RAG.

Free
ai21long-contextmamba

BioBERT Disease NER (NCBI)

Text & Chathuggingface

BioBERT fine-tuned on the NCBI Disease corpus for disease-name recognition. Given biomedical text it tags spans that mention a disease or condition, using BIO labels. Useful for pulling diagnoses and disease mentions out of abstracts, case reports and clinical notes.

€1.00
medicalresearchnlp

Claude Haiku 3.5

Text & ChatAnthropic

Anthropic's fast and affordable model. Great for quick tasks, summarization, and simple coding.

Free1.0s
fastaffordable

Clinical Assertion and Negation BERT

Text & Chathuggingface

Text-classification model from Betty van Aken that decides whether a medical condition mentioned in a clinical note is present, absent or possible. The target entity is marked in the input with [entity] tags, and the model returns the assertion status. Built on Bio_ClinicalBERT and trained on the 2010 i2b2/VA assertion data.

€1.00
medicalresearchnlp

Clinical NER (problem, test, treatment)

Text & Chathuggingface

Token-classification model that tags the three core i2b2 clinical entity types in patient notes: problem, test and treatment. Given a sentence from a discharge summary or progress note it marks which spans are medical problems, which are diagnostic tests and which are treatments or medications.

€1.00
medicalresearchnlp

Cohere Aya 23 35B

Text & ChatCustom

Open-weights multilingual research model from Cohere covering 23 languages. 35B parameters.

Free
coheremultilingualopen-weights

Cohere Command Light (legacy)

Text & ChatCohere

Cohere's fast lightweight chat model (deprecated Sep 2025). Kept as comparison tombstone.

Free
coherelegacydeprecated

Cohere Command R (08-2024)

Text & ChatCohere

Cohere's mid-tier RAG/tool model. Cost-efficient sibling of Command R+ with 128k context.

Free
cohereragtools

Cohere Command R+ (08-2024)

Text & ChatCohere

Cohere's flagship RAG- and tool-optimized chat model. 128k context, refreshed August 2024.

Free
cohereragtools

DeepSeek R1

Text & ChatDeepSeek
New

DeepSeek's reasoning model with chain-of-thought capabilities. Excellent for complex problem-solving.

Free8.0s
reasoningmath

DeepSeek V3

Text & ChatDeepSeek

Powerful open-weight model from DeepSeek. Strong at coding, math, and Chinese/English tasks.

Free2.0s
affordablecoding

DeepSeek V4 Flash

Text & ChatDeepSeek
New

Efficiency-optimized variant of DeepSeek V4. 284B MoE / 13B active, 1M context, ultra-low pricing for high-throughput workloads.

Free
deepseekopen-weightsmoe

GPT-4o Mini

Text & ChatOpenAI

Small, fast, and affordable model for lightweight tasks. Great balance of speed and capability.

Free800ms
fastaffordable

GPT-5 Mini

Text & ChatOpenAI

Smaller, faster, cheaper member of OpenAI's GPT-5 family. Tuned for high-throughput chat, classification and extraction where the full flagship is overkill.

Free
openaigpt-5cost-efficient

GPT-5.1

Text & ChatOpenAI

OpenAI GPT-5.1 chat model (November 2025). An earlier GPT-5 point release kept available for compatibility. Good general-purpose reasoning and coding.

Free
openaigpt-5reasoning

Grok 3

Text & ChatxAI
New

xAI's flagship model. Strong at reasoning, coding, and real-time knowledge with web search capabilities.

Free3.0s
reasoningreal-time

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)

Text & ChatxAI

xAI's Grok 4.20 standard snapshot. Skips the extended thinking pass for lower-latency answers on tasks that do not need deep deliberation. 1M token context window.

Free
xaigroklong-context

Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent

Text & ChatxAI

xAI's Grok 4.20 multi-agent snapshot. Coordinates several specialized agents under one call to handle multi-step workflows that mix research, tool use and synthesis. 1M token context window.

Free
xaigrokmulti-agent

Llama 3.3 70B

Text & ChatMeta

Meta's open-source 70B parameter model. Strong all-around performance with multilingual support.

Free2.5s
open-sourcepopular

Mistral Large

Text & ChatMistral AI

Mistral's flagship model. Strong reasoning, multilingual, and coding capabilities.

Free2.5s
multilingualcoding

OpenAI o3

Text & ChatOpenAI

OpenAI's o3 reasoning model. Spends compute on a private chain of thought before answering, strong at math, science and hard coding problems that benefit from deliberate reasoning.

Free
openaio-seriesreasoning

OpenAI o4-mini

Text & ChatOpenAI

OpenAI's o4-mini reasoning model. A cost-efficient reasoning model that trades some depth for much lower price and latency, good for high-volume math and code tasks.

Free
openaio-seriesreasoning

Perplexity Sonar

Text & ChatCustom

Perplexity's fastest and cheapest web-grounded chat model. Live-source citations included.

Free
perplexityweb-searchcitations

Perplexity Sonar Reasoning

Text & ChatCustom

Perplexity's reasoning model with chain-of-thought and integrated web search.

Free
perplexityweb-searchreasoning

Qwen 2.5 72B

Text & ChatAlibaba / Qwen

Alibaba's powerful open-source model. Excellent at coding, math, and multilingual tasks.

Free2.5s
open-sourcecodingmultilingual

Qwen 2.5-Max

Text & ChatCustom

Alibaba's flagship pretrained MoE model. Top-tier reasoning and code performance via DashScope API.

Free
qwenalibabamoe

SeamlessM4T v2 Large (Text)

Text & ChatCommunity

Meta SeamlessM4T v2 Large. Universal multilingual translation across 100+ languages with text-to-text mode for documents and chat.

€0.006
replicatetranslationmeta

Snowflake Arctic Instruct

Text & ChatCustom

Snowflake's open MoE model: 480B total / 17B active params with dense+MoE hybrid architecture.

Free
snowflakemoeopen-weights

Yi Large

Text & ChatCustom

01.AI's larger general-purpose chat model with 32k context window and strong bilingual performance.

Free
01aichinesebilingual

Top text & chat models picks

Hand-picked across four common criteria — resolved against the live catalog so the picks track price and performance changes.

Best overall
Bio_ClinicalBERT

The original Bio_ClinicalBERT from Alsentzer et al., a BERT model initialized from BioBERT and further pretrained on all MIMIC-III clinical notes. Served as a fill-mask endpoint it predicts masked tokens in clinical text and produces clinical embeddings. It is the standard encoder backbone behind many downstream clinical NLP fine-tunes.

Learn more
Cheapest
Cohere Command R (08-2024)

Cohere's mid-tier RAG/tool model. Cost-efficient sibling of Command R+ with 128k context.

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Longest context
MiniMax-01

MiniMax's 456B hybrid lightning-attention model with native 4M-token context. Industry-leading long-context.

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Fastest
GPT-4o Mini

Small, fast, and affordable model for lightweight tasks. Great balance of speed and capability.

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Pricing in text generation is almost always per-token, split into a cheaper input rate and a more expensive output rate. A million input tokens is roughly 750,000 English words, so even verbose prompts rarely push the per-call price above a few cents. Output is where bills grow: agentic loops that re-prompt themselves, long reports, and uncached few-shot examples add up quickly. Cache the system prompt, trim history aggressively, and prefer JSON-mode for structured tasks to keep token counts down.

The trade-off triangle is quality, latency, and cost. Flagship models (GPT-5, Claude 4.6, Gemini 2.5) cost ten to fifty times more than budget tiers (Haiku, Flash, Mini) and respond two to four times slower, but they reason deeper, follow instructions more reliably, and hallucinate less. For high-volume classification or extraction, a budget model is almost always the right call. For long-form analysis, code review, or anything user-facing, the flagship usually pays for itself.

Watch out for context dilution: when you stuff 200K tokens into the window, the model's attention spreads thin and it starts to ignore the middle of the prompt — even on long-context flagships. Retrieve the relevant 8-16K tokens with embeddings instead of pasting the whole document.

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