# elephant-1 vs JEV-27B-VL (slim)

> JEV-27B-VL scores 59.5 (C) to elephant-1's 47.6 (D) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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JEV-27B-VL scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against elephant-1's 47.6 (D), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. elephant-1 leads on reach and risk. Both do decision models.

- elephant-1: D 47.6, rank #98 of 102 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elephant-1.min.md
- JEV-27B-VL: C 59.5, rank #60 of 102 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jev-27b-vl.min.md
- elephant-1, good for Agents that want self-hosted ticket routing, guardrail checks or rubric scoring with probabilities to threshold, on one 24 GB GPU, and can accept a patched runtime. Ahead on Reach, 55 against 50; Risk, 50 against 45.
- JEV-27B-VL, good 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 Agent interface, 80 against 45; Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 40.

| Category | elephant-1 | JEV-27B-VL |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 55 | 50 |
| Risk (20%) | 50 | 45 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 45 | 80 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 40 | 92 |

| Fact (where they differ) | elephant-1 | JEV-27B-VL |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Baseten | AutoTrust AI Lab |
| Licence | MIT, named only in the card's metadata (license: other, license_name: mit) since 21 October 2026, with no LICENSE file. Until then the card said proprietary, all rights reserved, access for Decision Index evaluation only. The base Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B is Apache-2.0 | 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 |
| Last release | 2026-10-21 | 2026-10-02 |
| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |