This SageMaker model package provides a REST API to classify English text as formal or informal, with a confidence score.
Use it to route or adapt content by register: enforcing a professional tone in business communications, filtering training data for style, or powering writing assistants.
The API accepts input as JSON or CSV and supports real-time endpoints and batch transform.
Model and training data
The model is a ModernBERT-base (answerdotai/ModernBERT-base) text classifier
fine-tuned with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers on the public osyvokon/pavlick-formality-scores dataset.
It runs in network isolation on SageMaker, so no data leaves your account.
Known limitations
English only. Other languages are not supported.
The model was fine-tuned on inputs up to 512 tokens. Longer text is
accepted, but accuracy is only characterized to that length; split long
documents into passages before sending.
Binary output (formal or informal) derived from human formality
ratings, which are subjective near the middle of the scale.
Measured performance
Accuracy 84.0 percent, macro-F1 0.838, measured on 2,254 held-out examples from pavlick-formality-scores.
The split is seeded (70/20/10, seed 42) and was not used in training.
Real-time endpoint on ml.m5.large: 249 ms median per request (265 ms p95).
Throughput on the same instance: about 24 texts per second at a batch size of 32.
Highlights
Sort English text into formal vs informal for tone routing, training-data filters, and writing aids
Register/style classification - not sentiment or toxicity relabeled
JSON or CSV with a confidence score; SageMaker real-time or batch
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You pay by the hour for the instance that runs the model, billed per host-hour. Pricing splits along two choices. First, pick an instance size across the ml.m5 and ml.c5 families, from ml.m5.large up to ml.c5.2xlarge, matching compute to your workload. Second, pick a mode: real-time for live endpoint requests, or batch for processing datasets in bulk. Each size-and-mode pairing is priced separately, so larger or compute-optimized instances cost more per hour. You choose one combination and pay only for the hours it runs.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What does one host-hour cover, and am I charged when the endpoint sits idle?
One host-hour is one hour of a running instance that hosts the model. A real-time endpoint accrues charges the whole time it stays up, even between requests. Charges stop when you delete the endpoint. Batch jobs bill only for the hours the job runs.
How does real-time mode differ from batch mode for billing purposes?
Real-time mode runs a live endpoint that stays on to answer requests, so you pay for uptime whether or not text is flowing. Batch mode processes a dataset in one job and bills only for that job's duration. Real-time suits steady live traffic; batch suits bulk one-time processing.
Does the number of texts I classify change my bill?
No. You pay per host-hour of the instance, not per text or per request. Cost depends on the instance size you pick and how long it runs. Sending more text within the same running hours does not add a separate charge, though heavier volume may require a larger instance.
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Version release notes
Important: security update. The inference container is rebuilt on Amazon
Linux 2023, replacing a Debian base that carried HIGH and CRITICAL CVEs
with no fixed version available upstream.
The model itself is unchanged. This version is exported from the same
fine-tuned checkpoint as version 1.
Request and response formats are unchanged: JSON or CSV in, label plus
confidence out.
Additional details
Inputs
Outputs
Usage instructions
Sample notebooks
Inputs
Summary
A JSON object with a "texts" array of strings to classify (or a CSV file, one text per line, for batch transform).
Input MIME type
application/json, text/csv
Real-time inference sample input data
{"texts": ["yo wanna grab some food later?"]}
Batch transform sample input data
yo wanna grab some food later?
Input data descriptions
The following table describes supported input data fields for real-time inference and batch transform.
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