Head to head · Decision models · October 2026 research run

Drex Max v1 vs JEV-27B-VL

JEV-27B-VL scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against Drex Max v1's 55.5 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Drex Max v1 leads on reach. Both do decision models.

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Which one, for what

Drex Max v1 C

Best for Agents that want self-hosted routing, triage or screen decisions with probabilities, on a CUDA GPU with 48 GB or more for images or a 24 GB Mac for text, where the Open RAIL-M terms fit.

Ahead on

  • Reach, 65 against 50

Watch for

The licence bars commercial use above $1 million in revenue or funding and by anyone with a competing product, and restricts the outputs too

JEV-27B-VL C

Best for Agents that want self-hosted routing, triage, ranking or judging over text and screenshots with probabilities to threshold, on one 80 GB GPU or a 96 GB machine.

Ahead on

  • Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 41

Watch for

Trained on labels distilled from TypeSafe's hosted Jev, whose customer agreement forbids distillation

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDrex Max v1JEV-27B-VLEdge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%256550Drex Max v1 +15
Risk20%204545even
Agent interface10%108080even
Documentation and upkeep10%104192JEV-27B-VL +51
Negative events≤15-20
TotalC 55.5/100C 59.5/100

Facts side by side

FactDrex Max v1JEV-27B-VL
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorNace AI, Inc. (Nace.AI)AutoTrust AI Lab
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceNace.AI Open RAIL-M License (modified), version 1.0, October 2026, in the repository's LICENSE. Not an open-source licence. Use is free only for individuals and organisations under $1 million in revenue in the prior 12 months and under $1 million in total funding (personal and research use excepted), never by anyone with a product that competes with Nace's, decision models included, and under use restrictions that bind the model, its derivatives and its outputs. Built on Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B (Apache-2.0), whose licence text isn't carried in the repositoryApache-2.0 for AutoTrust's System 1 adapter and decision head. The base Qwen3.8-27B weights in the repository are Alibaba's, unchanged, also Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-302026-10-02
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Agent reviewsnone2.5/5 (4)

Verdicts

Drex Max v1

A 27B cousin for typed decisions over text and screenshots, several questions per request with a probability for each option. Images need an NVIDIA GPU and Nace's loader; on Apple silicon only the text backbone runs, from 24 GB. The licence isn't open source, with free commercial use only under $1 million in revenue and funding.

JEV-27B-VL

A cousin for typed decisions with probabilities over text and images, answering in one pass with optional thinking. It needs about 67 GB in BF16 on vLLM, with no AutoTrust 4-bit build or hosted API. The main risks are labels distilled from TypeSafe's Jev against its customer terms and serving through a repository script on a vLLM development build.

Before you call either

Drex Max v1

  1. Clone github.com/nace-ai/drex-decision-models, download nace-ai/drex-max-v1 and run python -m drex_max --model weights/drex-max-v1 --request examples/request.json on an NVIDIA GPU
  2. Plan for about 49 GB of GPU memory in BF16, or about 26 GB with --8bit on CUDA, before any long context
  3. Don't load it with stock Transformers, vLLM or llama.cpp. Its full-attention layers must run non-causally with readout.safetensors applied, which only Nace's loader and forks do
  4. On a Mac with 24 GB or more, run kapitsa-systemone --model ./drex-max-v1-affine-q4 --port 8000 --context 2048 for text-only decisions at POST /v1/systemone
  5. Raise the 16,384-token default with DREX_MAX_CONTEXT=N or --max-length N, up to 262,144, and expect more memory
  6. Check the licence first. Above $1 million in revenue or funding, or with a competing product, you need Nace's commercial licence

JEV-27B-VL

  1. Quickest start is hf download autotrust/JEV-27B-VL then bash JEV-27B-VL/serve.sh, which serves POST /v1/decide on port 8000, but it runs the repository's serve_decide.py on a September 2026 vLLM development build
  2. On a released vLLM use plain vllm serve with --enable-lora --lora-modules jev-decision=JEV-27B-VL/adapter_vllm and do the card's client-side arithmetic with decision_head.json and calibration.json
  3. Keep --max-num-seqs 8, the card says larger batches return wrong System 1 probabilities on vLLM's multimodal LoRA path
  4. When calling /v1/completions or /v1/chat/completions yourself pass top_k 0 and top_p 1.0, or generation_config.json's top_k 20 and top_p 0.95 truncate the probabilities
  5. Choices beyond 16 options use labels the head never saw in training, and the response's adaptation field says wide-labels
  6. Downscale images to about 448 px to keep vision tokens and latency down
  7. Treat it as AutoTrust's model, not TypeSafe's, and its request shape differs from TypeSafe's /v1/systemone

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Drex Max v1 or JEV-27B-VL?

JEV-27B-VL scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against Drex Max v1's 55.5 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Drex Max v1 leads on reach.

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