# elephant-1 vs joey-1 (slim)

> joey-1 scores 57.1 (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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joey-1 scores 57.1 (C) on agent readiness against elephant-1's 47.6 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do decision models.

- elephant-1: D 47.6, rank #113 of 117 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elephant-1.min.md
- joey-1: C 57.1, rank #78 of 117 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/joey-1.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.
- joey-1, good for Agents that want self-hosted, low-cost ticket routing or guardrail checks with probabilities to threshold, on a GPU with 8 GB, and can accept a patched runtime. Ahead on Reach, 60 against 55; Risk, 55 against 50; Agent interface, 70 against 45; Documentation and upkeep, 54 against 40.

| Category | elephant-1 | joey-1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 55 | 60 |
| Risk (20%) | 50 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 45 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 40 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | elephant-1 | joey-1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | MIT, named in the card's metadata (license: mit) since the upload of 27 October 2026, with no LICENSE file. The base Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B is Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-21 | 2026-10-29 |
| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | none |