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
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
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
| Category | Weight this run | Drex Max v1 | JEV-27B-VL | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | 35%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25%25 | 65 | 50 | Drex Max v1 +15 |
| Risk | 20%20 | 45 | 45 | even |
| Agent interface | 10%10 | 80 | 80 | even |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10%10 | 41 | 92 | JEV-27B-VL +51 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| Total | C 55.5/100 | C 59.5/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Drex Max v1 | JEV-27B-VL |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | Nace AI, Inc. (Nace.AI) | AutoTrust AI Lab |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Nace.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 repository | Apache-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 documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-30 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no 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 reviews | none | 2.5/5 (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
- 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.jsonon an NVIDIA GPU - Plan for about 49 GB of GPU memory in BF16, or about 26 GB with --8bit on CUDA, before any long context
- 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
- On a Mac with 24 GB or more, run
kapitsa-systemone --model ./drex-max-v1-affine-q4 --port 8000 --context 2048for text-only decisions at POST /v1/systemone - Raise the 16,384-token default with DREX_MAX_CONTEXT=N or --max-length N, up to 262,144, and expect more memory
- 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
- Quickest start is
hf download autotrust/JEV-27B-VLthenbash 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 - On a released vLLM use plain
vllm servewith--enable-lora --lora-modules jev-decision=JEV-27B-VL/adapter_vllmand do the card's client-side arithmetic with decision_head.json and calibration.json - Keep
--max-num-seqs 8, the card says larger batches return wrong System 1 probabilities on vLLM's multimodal LoRA path - 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
- Choices beyond 16 options use labels the head never saw in training, and the response's adaptation field says wide-labels
- Downscale images to about 448 px to keep vision tokens and latency down
- 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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anchor compare drex-max-v1 jev-27b-vl(the CLI) - Over MCP
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