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
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.
Biomedical NER (all entities)
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.
Claude Opus 4
Anthropic's most powerful model. Exceptional at complex analysis, agentic tasks, and extended reasoning.
Claude Opus 4.8
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.
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic's most capable model. Excellent for complex analysis, coding, math, and creative writing.
DeepSeek V3.1
DeepSeek's refreshed V3.1 release. 671B MoE / 37B active. Tops open-weights leaderboards on coding and reasoning.
DeepSeek V4 Pro
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.
Gemini 2.0 Flash
Google's fastest multimodal model. Supports text, images, audio, and video input.
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google's latest thinking model. Excels at reasoning, coding, math, and science with massive context window.
GPT-4.1
OpenAI's newest flagship model. Improved reasoning, instruction following, and coding over GPT-4o.
GPT-4o
OpenAI's most capable multimodal model. Excellent for complex reasoning, coding, and creative tasks.
GPT-5.5
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.
Grok 4
xAI's flagship reasoning model with vision and tool use. 256k context, strong at complex reasoning and STEM tasks.
Grok 4.20 Reasoning
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.
Kimi K2 (Moonshot)
Moonshot AI's 1T-parameter MoE model. Industry-leading agentic coding and tool-use benchmarks.
Medical NER (DeBERTa)
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.
MiniMax-01
MiniMax's 456B hybrid lightning-attention model with native 4M-token context. Industry-leading long-context.
o3-mini
OpenAI's reasoning model optimized for STEM tasks, coding, and math. Uses chain-of-thought reasoning.
Perplexity Sonar Pro
Perplexity's premium web-grounded search model with multi-step reasoning over live sources.
AI21 Jamba 1.5 Large
AI21's flagship hybrid Mamba-Transformer model with a 256k context window for long-document tasks.
AI21 Jamba 1.5 Mini
Cost-efficient hybrid Mamba-Transformer model with 256k context. Tuned for high-throughput RAG.
BioBERT Disease NER (NCBI)
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.
Claude Haiku 3.5
Anthropic's fast and affordable model. Great for quick tasks, summarization, and simple coding.
Clinical Assertion and Negation BERT
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.
Clinical NER (problem, test, treatment)
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.
Cohere Aya 23 35B
Open-weights multilingual research model from Cohere covering 23 languages. 35B parameters.
Cohere Command Light (legacy)
Cohere's fast lightweight chat model (deprecated Sep 2025). Kept as comparison tombstone.
Cohere Command R (08-2024)
Cohere's mid-tier RAG/tool model. Cost-efficient sibling of Command R+ with 128k context.
Cohere Command R+ (08-2024)
Cohere's flagship RAG- and tool-optimized chat model. 128k context, refreshed August 2024.
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek's reasoning model with chain-of-thought capabilities. Excellent for complex problem-solving.
DeepSeek V3
Powerful open-weight model from DeepSeek. Strong at coding, math, and Chinese/English tasks.
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Efficiency-optimized variant of DeepSeek V4. 284B MoE / 13B active, 1M context, ultra-low pricing for high-throughput workloads.
GPT-4o Mini
Small, fast, and affordable model for lightweight tasks. Great balance of speed and capability.
GPT-5 Mini
Smaller, faster, cheaper member of OpenAI's GPT-5 family. Tuned for high-throughput chat, classification and extraction where the full flagship is overkill.
GPT-5.1
OpenAI GPT-5.1 chat model (November 2025). An earlier GPT-5 point release kept available for compatibility. Good general-purpose reasoning and coding.
Grok 3
xAI's flagship model. Strong at reasoning, coding, and real-time knowledge with web search capabilities.
Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
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.
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent
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.
Llama 3.3 70B
Meta's open-source 70B parameter model. Strong all-around performance with multilingual support.
Mistral Large
Mistral's flagship model. Strong reasoning, multilingual, and coding capabilities.
OpenAI o3
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.
OpenAI o4-mini
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.
Perplexity Sonar
Perplexity's fastest and cheapest web-grounded chat model. Live-source citations included.
Perplexity Sonar Reasoning
Perplexity's reasoning model with chain-of-thought and integrated web search.
Qwen 2.5 72B
Alibaba's powerful open-source model. Excellent at coding, math, and multilingual tasks.
Qwen 2.5-Max
Alibaba's flagship pretrained MoE model. Top-tier reasoning and code performance via DashScope API.
SeamlessM4T v2 Large (Text)
Meta SeamlessM4T v2 Large. Universal multilingual translation across 100+ languages with text-to-text mode for documents and chat.
Snowflake Arctic Instruct
Snowflake's open MoE model: 480B total / 17B active params with dense+MoE hybrid architecture.
Yi Large
01.AI's larger general-purpose chat model with 32k context window and strong bilingual performance.
Top text & chat models picks
Hand-picked across four common criteria — resolved against the live catalog so the picks track price and performance changes.
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 moreCohere's mid-tier RAG/tool model. Cost-efficient sibling of Command R+ with 128k context.
Learn moreMiniMax's 456B hybrid lightning-attention model with native 4M-token context. Industry-leading long-context.
Learn moreSmall, fast, and affordable model for lightweight tasks. Great balance of speed and capability.
Learn morePricing 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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