Med42 vs Meditron vs MedGemma vs Corti
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| M4 Med42 Abu Dhabi's open-access clinical LLMs, fine-tuned from Llama 3 and fre... Visit | MD Meditron EPFL's open medical LLMs, now with a fully open MeditronFO line on Ape... Visit |
MedGemma
Google's open-weight medical AI model family for building healthcare a...
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Corti
Healthcare AI APIs for speech, documentation and coding, plus a scribe...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Free | Open Source | Open Source | Usage_based |
| Free tier | Free: Med42-v2 8B and 70B weights on Hugging Face under the Llama 3 Community License | Free: Meditron weights on Hugging Face (Llama 2 / Llama 3.1 licences; MeditronFO under Apache 2.0) and open code | Open weights downloadable free from Hugging Face; run locally or on your own infrastructure under Google's health AI model terms. | $50 free API credits, no card required, valid one year; Corti Assistant scribe app has a free plan of 10 sessions per week |
| Paid from | — | — | — | Usage-based: $4/$16 per M tokens, speech $0.0065/min; Acceleration Pack $1,000/mo |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Founded | 2023 | 2023 | — | 2016 |
| Maker | M42 | EPFL | Independent (Corti ApS) | |
| Verdict | Med42 is a credible, free clinical base model from a large Gulf health group, published on Hugging Face rather than behind a sales call, and a real option for a health system that wants to run a medical model on its own... |
Judge Meditron on transparency rather than leaderboard position. The 2023 corpus is documented, and the 2026 MeditronFO line goes further, releasing training data, code and weights under Apache 2.0, which is what you nee... |
What this is for: A foundation for developers building healthcare AI on medical text and images — classification, retrieval, report drafting and clinical NLP. Who this is for: Healthcare AI developers and researchers, n... |
Corti offers some of the most specialised healthcare speech and documentation AI available to developers, with transparent usage pricing, strong compliance credentials and now its own scribe app. Its accuracy and benchma... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.