The model catalogue

The model catalogue lists the models Teloneum offers. It is for the people who administer a project or the organisation, and it is a section of Management: open Management, then Model catalogue, beside Projects and People. It also opens there from Choose the models, in a project that offers none yet, and from Providers and models, on a project in Projects. On a phone, it is a screen of its own.

What you see depends on your role. A member sees only the models their current project may use. An owner or administrator of the organisation sees everything Teloneum offers, so as to choose what each project may use (see Switching providers and models).

Everything the catalogue shows is read on the providers’ own pages. When a provider does not publish something - where a model runs, a price - the catalogue says so instead of guessing.

Reading a model’s line

Each model takes two lines, so that many fit on the screen.

The first line shows:

for an owner or administrator of the organisation, a switch, first, to turn the model on or off in the current project;
the model’s name and identifier;
on a wide enough screen, its markers: its weight as a ring, its performance as a gauge, its speed in chevrons, and Efficient when no other model is both lighter and better (see Choosing the right weight);
the flags of the countries it runs in;
its price per million tokens, input and output, in the provider’s own currency.

The second line shows:

the certifications that are backed, or in progress, or that you filter on, as badges; the claims the provider only makes about itself are counted - 2 self-declared, for instance - and named when you hover over the count;
the provider serving it, when the models are not listed by provider;
what the model is used for - Chat, Vision, Audio, Embedding, Retrieval, Image - its context window, and what sets it apart, such as reasoning, tool calls or PDF input, and where it stands in its lifecycle: Preview, or Deprecated with the date it retires;
where it runs, on a wide enough screen; on a phone, the price is here instead, leaving the first line to the name.

At the end of the line, a speech bubble (Chat with followed by the model’s name) opens a new chat with that model, for the models you can talk to from Teloneum.

Where a model runs

The line names the place, as precisely as the provider publishes it: a city and country, or a zone such as an EU data zone when the provider only promises that the model stays within it. On a phone, the flags alone say where.

When a model runs in several places, the line counts them. Choose the place you want: the price and the certifications shown follow that place, since one place can cost more, or be covered by a certificate another is not.
The question mark beside the flags shows on a map where the model runs.
Location not published means the provider does not say where the model runs. Treat it as unknown, not as anywhere in particular.

Where a model runs and where its provider is based are two different things, and the catalogue shows both: the first tells you where your data is processed, the second whose laws the company answers to.

The same model can be listed more than once when several providers serve it. Each listing has its own places, prices and certifications, because they really do differ from one provider to another.

Certified, or only claimed

Every certification carries its status:

Badge	What it means
Certified	A certificate or a public register backs it.
In progress	The provider says the certification is under way.
Expired	The certificate is no longer valid.
Self-declared	The provider states it on its own pages; nobody independent has confirmed it.

Only Certified means the claim is backed by a document or by a third party. A self-declared claim may well be true, but it is the provider’s word.

Hover over or long-press a badge to see more: whether it covers the provider, its data centres or the model itself, what it covers when its name says more than it does, until when it is valid, and whether a public register confirms it. When a proof is available, the badge shows a link icon: open it to read the certificate or the register entry for yourself.

A badge with a question mark means nobody has read where the certificate applies, so it may not cover the place you chose. It is shown rather than hidden, because it may well cover it.

Filtering

Under the search field, each filter is a button: choose it to see its values, pick as many as you need, and click elsewhere to close it. A filter in use shows how many of its values you picked. The filters follow the order in which you usually decide:

Switched on only - for an owner or administrator of the organisation, when some models are switched off in the current project: keeps only the models available there.
Efficient only - keeps only the models no other one beats: none is both lighter and better.
Weight - from Feather to Very heavy. Picking several widens the choice; a model with no published price has no weight.
Used for - the uses the model must cover. Picking several keeps the models that cover all of them.
Certified - the certifications the model must hold. Picking several keeps the models that hold all of them. Each value shows how many models would remain if you picked it. By default only certified claims count; turn on Accept self-declared to count a provider’s own statement too.
Data centre in - where the model may run: France, the European Union, outside the EU, or a specific country. Picking several widens the choice. A model is kept when one of its places matches, and only the matching places are shown.
Provider based in - the countries the provider may be based in.
Input price, per 1M tokens - a ceiling on the input price. Prices are compared as published: dollars and euros are not converted, and a model with no price per token is left out.

Type in the search field to match names, providers and descriptions. Your choices are listed above the results; remove any of them on its own, or choose Reset the filters. Under Sort by, list the results by Price, Name or Provider. They are listed by provider at first for an owner or administrator of the organisation, cheapest first for everyone else.

If nothing matches, the catalogue tells you which filter to relax - usually a certification.

If the catalogue says No model to show yet, no provider has been set up on Teloneum yet. If it says No model in followed by your project’s name, the administrators of your organisation have not made any model available in that project yet: ask one of them.

The Providers panel

Providers, at the top of the catalogue, lists every provider and says whether you can talk to its models:

Through Teloneum - Teloneum provides access to it: you can talk to its models;
Not connected - Teloneum does not provide access to it yet: its models are listed, but cannot answer.

Switching providers and models

Each project of your company has its own choice of providers and models, and a new project has none: nobody can chat in it until a provider is turned on there. Only the owners and administrators of the organisation choose; a project administrator manages who is in the project, not its models. The choice applies to everyone in that project, and to that project only.

The catalogue shows the project you are choosing for, at its top: Models in followed by the project’s name. If you have several projects, pick another one from that menu (Choose the project).
When the models are listed by provider, each provider’s heading starts with a switch: turned on, it makes all its models available in the project, including the ones it adds later; turned off, it turns them all off. Hovering over it says which it will do.
Turn a single model on or off with the switch at the start of its line. A model turned off stays in the catalogue, so that it can be turned on again; meanwhile it cannot answer in that project, and the project’s members no longer see it. Turning on a model of a provider whose models are all off makes that model alone available; turning off the last one unselects the whole provider.
Members of the project see only what is turned on: the other providers and models do not appear in their chat.
Who turned what off, and when, is recorded.
Teloneum can also withdraw a provider for a while. It then no longer appears in the catalogue or the chat, until Teloneum offers it again.