Meditron vs Med42
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| MD Meditron EPFL's open medical LLMs, now with a fully open MeditronFO line on Ape... Visit | M4 Med42 Abu Dhabi's open-access clinical LLMs, fine-tuned from Llama 3 and fre... Visit | |
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Free |
| Free tier | Free: Meditron weights on Hugging Face (Llama 2 / Llama 3.1 licences; MeditronFO under Apache 2.0) and open code | Free: Med42-v2 8B and 70B weights on Hugging Face under the Llama 3 Community License |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | EPFL | M42 |
| Verdict | 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... |
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... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.