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      "summary": "Gemini 4 Carbon is Google's strongest Gemini model, for long agentic coding, cybersecurity and research work, on the paid tier of the Gemini API with a 1,048,576-token limit shared between input and output.",
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      "license": "Closed model, used through the Gemini API and Google's apps under Google's terms",
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      "packages": [],
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      "authNotes": "An `x-goog-api-key` from AI Studio on a project with billing, since Carbon is on the paid tier only, per the Gemini API listing and Google's developer post. Google AI Ultra subscribers can also use it in AI Studio and Antigravity. The `gemini-4-carbon-cyber-permissive` variant needs a project approved through Google's Fairwind Program.",
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      "pricingNotes": "Google's announcement gives an introductory $2 per million input tokens and $10 output, cached input 95% off, then $4 and $20, with no end date for the introduction. Paid tier only, no free tier. Every processed token is billed, thinking included (checked 2026-11-10).",
      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
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        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No machine payment. Paid use needs billing on a Cloud project, per the Gemini API listing (checked 2026-11-10).",
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        "inference.llm"
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        "official",
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        "reasoning",
        "long-context",
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        "card-required",
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        "llms-txt",
        "new"
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      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
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        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 22,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 93,
          "maintenance": 83,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 55,
          "transparency": 72
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
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        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
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        "bestFor": "Agents on the hardest long tasks (multi-step debugging, large codebases, open-ended research, security work) that can pay frontier prices and already use the Gemini API.",
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          "Introductory price of $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, with cached input 95% off",
          "1,048,576 tokens shared between input and output, with long decodes for big outputs",
          "Function calling, structured output, Google Search grounding and background execution",
          "Thinking levels LOW, MEDIUM (default) and HIGH, and implicit caching on by default",
          "The same API, keys and SDKs as Gemini 4 Argon, so switching is a model ID"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Paid tier only, with no free tier to try it on",
          "temperature, top_p and top_k are ignored, and thinking_budget, MINIMAL, penalties and extra candidates return a 400",
          "No explicit context caching, and prefilled model turns aren't accepted",
          "The price goes to $4 and $20 after an introduction with no end date given",
          "Benchmark figures are Google's own, and the launch stage isn't stated"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Call generateContent at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta with model gemini-4-carbon and an x-goog-api-key on a billed project",
          "Set thinking_level (LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH) instead of thinking_budget, and don't send temperature, top_p or top_k",
          "Count output against the same 1,048,576-token limit as the input, and set max_output_tokens for long answers",
          "Put static prompt content first so implicit caching applies; explicit caches aren't supported",
          "Use gemini-4-argon for most coding and knowledge work, and Carbon for the hardest long tasks, as Google suggests"
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          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "avgRating": 0,
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            "basis": "public evidence",
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              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
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          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 40,
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          "transparency": 55
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            "transparency": "2026-11-10"
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          "oldest": "2026-11-10",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-4-carbon:generateContent\" \\\n  -H \"x-goog-api-key: $GEMINI_API_KEY\" -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"contents\":[{\"parts\":[{\"text\":\"hello\"}]}]}'"
      },
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/gemini-4-carbon"
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      "sameCompany": [
        "vertex-ai",
        "gemini-embedding",
        "vertex-ai-tuning",
        "cloud-run-gpus",
        "google-model-armor",
        "google-imagen",
        "google-veo",
        "google-lyria",
        "google-speech-to-text",
        "google-cloud-tts",
        "gemini-live",
        "google-adk",
        "google-memory-bank",
        "google-secret-manager",
        "google-cloud-document-ai",
        "google-weather-api",
        "chrome-devtools-mcp",
        "google-maps-platform",
        "google-cloud-translation",
        "google-calendar-api",
        "firebase-cloud-messaging",
        "google-cloud-storage",
        "google-drive-api",
        "gemini-enterprise",
        "gemini-cli",
        "google-search-console",
        "google-ads-api",
        "google-forms",
        "google-sheets-api",
        "gmail-api",
        "google-people-api"
      ],
      "sameModel": [
        "gemini-api"
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          "item": "Gemini 4 Carbon input",
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          "note": "Introductory; $4 after, date not given"
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        {
          "item": "Gemini 4 Carbon cached input",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Gemini 4 Carbon output",
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        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "Google LLC",
        "domain": "google.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15",
        "domainNote": "The endpoint is on googleapis.com, Google's API domain. google.com was registered in 1997.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms",
        "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://aistudio.google.com/status",
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        "securityTxt": "valid",
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-4-carbon.json",
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://aistudio.google.com/status",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
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        "updatedAt": "2026-11-10T23:47:03.904361517Z"
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    "answer": "Gemini 4 Carbon scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.",
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      "slug": "jais-3",
      "name": "Jais 3",
      "vendor": "Institute of Foundation Models (MBZUAI) and Inception42",
      "vendorUrl": "https://ifm.ai/blog/jais3/",
      "kind": "model",
      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Jais 3 is an open-weight family of Arabic and English reasoning models from MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models and Inception42, from 0.9B to 375B parameters with up to 512K tokens of context, released under Apache-2.0 for self-hosting.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jais-3.json",
      "dns": "jais-3.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://huggingface.co/inception42/Jais-3-375B-A23B",
      "license": "Apache-2.0, declared in the metadata of every model card read. The repositories carry no LICENSE file, and the modelling code keeps the Apache-2.0 header of the Qwen3-MoE code it was generated from",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No account or key. The inception42 and IFM repositories on Hugging Face are not gated and download anonymously. A local server has whatever authentication the owner adds, such as vLLM's `--api-key`. The cards' examples call the local server with `api_key=\"EMPTY\"`.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to download and run under Apache-2.0, with the owner's GPUs as the cost. No hosted endpoint from IFM or Inception42 was found, and on 4 November 2026 Hugging Face listed no inference provider for any of the six main repositories.",
      "priceSummary": "Free",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402. Jais 3 is a set of weights the owner serves, with no payment route and no hosted API from the makers found (checked 2026-10-17).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/inception42/Jais-3-375B-A23B",
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.llm",
        "inference.open-weights",
        "inference.local"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "model",
        "open-weights",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "apache-2.0",
        "openai-compatible",
        "gpu",
        "apple-silicon",
        "mlx",
        "new"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-15",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 52.1,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1003,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1518,
        "categoryRank": 37,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 65,
          "maintenance": 62,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 48,
          "schema": 54,
          "security": 31,
          "transparency": 55
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-04"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Jais 3 runs on the owner's hardware through OpenAI-compatible servers in vLLM and SGLang, with tool calls, three reasoning levels and a 512K context, from a 2.2 GB 0.9B model to a 758 GB 375B one. The weights download without sign-up under Apache-2.0, but every launch command trusts remote code and no security contact is published.",
        "bestFor": "An agent or team that needs Arabic and English reasoning and tool use on its own hardware, from a laptop-sized 0.9B to a cluster-sized 375B, under Apache-2.0.",
        "strengths": [
          "Six checkpoints from 0.9B (2.2 GB) to 375B-A23B (758 GB), with FP8, GGUF and MLX builds from IFM",
          "Apache-2.0 on every card read, ungated downloads, and the CPT, Cooldown, SFT and FTPO training checkpoints published as branches",
          "With the `k2_horizon` parsers, reasoning returns in `reasoning_content` and tool calls as `tool_calls`, in JSON, XML or typed XML formats",
          "Launch recipes in the vLLM and SGLang projects' own docs, and K2 Horizon support in llama.cpp's tagged builds since 6 October 2026",
          "The chat template validates tool schemas and rejects unknown options with named errors, such as an unsupported `reasoning_effort`"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Every documented vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and MLX command passes `--trust-remote-code`, so the repository's Python runs on the host",
          "The 375B-A23B reference deployment is 16 H100 GPUs across two nodes, or one 8-GPU H200 node",
          "The code repository is marked 'coming soon', and the technical report, blog and press release on ifm.ai sit behind a bot check",
          "No LICENSE file in the repositories, no changelog, no deprecation policy and no security contact or security.txt found",
          "Released on 15 October 2026, with template fixes on 14 and 15 October, and mlx-lm v0.32.2 has no K2 Horizon support of its own"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Start vLLM or SGLang with `--reasoning-parser k2_horizon`, and add `--tool-call-parser k2_horizon` (vLLM also `--enable-auto-tool-choice`) for tools, or tool calls come back as raw text",
          "Pass `reasoning_effort` (`high`, `medium` or `low`) and `tool_call_format` inside `chat_template_kwargs`. Other values return a template error",
          "Send each earlier assistant turn back with `reasoning_content` as a string, even an empty one. A missing or null thinking field makes the template raise an error",
          "Send your own system message, or set `default_system_prompt` to an empty string. Without one the template inserts an identity prompt naming IFM, Inception42 and Cerebras",
          "Budget at least 32,768 output tokens at `high` effort, which the cards recommend for every request"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 62,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 48,
          "schema": 54,
          "security": 31,
          "transparency": 51
        },
        "provenanceScore": 58,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
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            "maintenance": "2026-11-04",
            "payments": "2026-11-04",
            "reliability": "2026-11-04",
            "schema": "2026-11-04",
            "security": "2026-11-04",
            "transparency": "2026-11-04"
          },
          "last": "2026-11-04",
          "lastMoved": "2026-10-27",
          "oldest": "2026-11-04",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
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      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "vllm serve inception42/Jais-3-32B \\\n  --trust-remote-code \\\n  --dtype bfloat16 \\\n  --tensor-parallel-size 2 \\\n  --reasoning-parser k2_horizon \\\n  --enable-auto-tool-choice \\\n  --tool-call-parser k2_horizon",
        "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  -d '{\n    \"model\": \"inception42/Jais-3-32B\",\n    \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Summarise this contract in Arabic.\"}],\n    \"max_tokens\": 32768,\n    \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"reasoning_effort\": \"high\"}\n  }'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/jais-3"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (Institute of Foundation Models), with Inception42 (a G42 company)",
        "domain": "ifm.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2022-09-06",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
        "notes": [
          "The chat template's default system prompt names the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) at MBZUAI, with Inception42 (a G42 company) and Cerebras, and gives MBZUAI's Arabic name, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. The citation names the IFM, Inception42 and Cerebras teams. No registered company name for Inception42 was read first-hand.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 6 September 2022 for ifm.ai. The weights are on huggingface.co under the inception42 and IFM organisations.",
          "The licence is Apache-2.0 in each card's metadata. There is no LICENSE file and no terms or privacy document governing the weights, and no input reaches the makers when the owner serves them.",
          "ifm.ai answered our reader with a Cloudflare bot check on the press release, the blog post and the sitemap, so they weren't read. inceptionai.ai and mbzuai.ac.ae answered with bot or firewall pages too. ifm.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 17 October 2026.",
          "No hosted endpoint, so no status page. No changelog. The Hugging Face commit history is public and was read."
        ],
        "score": 58
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "jais-3",
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://ifm.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:08:54.930262034Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "ifm.ai",
          "registered": "2022-09-06",
          "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/ifm.ai",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:05:12.570760186Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-11-10T16:08:54.930262034Z"
      }
    },
    "edges": [
      {
        "by": 40,
        "category": "payments",
        "leads": "jais-3",
        "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No machine payment protocol (0). Introductory prices published in Google's 28 October announcement without a login, $2 and $10, then $4 and $20; the Gemini API pricing page as read on 10 November showed no Carbon row, so the figures rest on the announcement (20). No free tier: Google's developer post puts Carbon on the paid tier (0). A Google account and AI Studio for a key (0). 0 + 20 + 0 + 0 = 20.",
          "b": "Self-hosted rule. Apache-2.0 weights with nothing to buy and no hosted option from the makers (20). Free to run with no card (20). Downloads are ungated and anonymous, so an agent can fetch the weights with no sign-up (20). No payment protocol (0). 20 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 60."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 20,
          "b": 60
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 31,
        "category": "schema",
        "leads": "gemini-4-carbon",
        "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Discovery document for GenerateContent (20 of 25). llms.txt with Markdown twins (10). The Cloud developer guide says what Carbon takes and refuses, the parameters that return 400 or are ignored, and how to migrate (15 of 20). Structured output to a JSON Schema with some keywords not enforced (10 of 15). Examples and an errors page (15). Dated changelog and model versions (15). 20 + 10 + 15 + 10 + 15 + 15 = 85.",
          "b": "Read for a model the owner serves. No specification of its own. The contract is the Jinja chat template, which validates tool JSON Schemas (required fields must exist in properties) and rejects unknown options, plus the OpenAI-compatible servers in vLLM and SGLang with the `k2_horizon` parsers (10 of 25). The cards are Markdown on Hugging Face, and SGLang's docs have an llms.txt, but no llms.txt or Markdown docs from IFM were found and ifm.ai couldn't be read (5 of 10). Each card states intended use, four out-of-scope uses, limitations and per-size serving advice (15 of 20). `reasoning_effort` and `tool_call_format` are enums enforced with errors, and tools take JSON Schema. The 375B card describes `low` as no reasoning and omits `medium`, which the template accepts, and structured output isn't documented (10 of 15). Python examples for a reasoning call and a tool loop, commands for five runtimes, and named template errors, but no error reference for a served model (11 of 15). No changelog or version scheme. Training-stage branches and public commit history (3 of 15). 10 + 5 + 15 + 10 + 11 + 3 = 54."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 85,
          "b": 54
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 28,
        "category": "ergonomics",
        "leads": "gemini-4-carbon",
        "name": "Agent ergonomics",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Function calling, with forced calls by FunctionCallingConfig on the API (20). Structured output (13 of 15). Implicit caching with durable caching on by default, cached input 95% off, explicit caches not supported, per the Cloud guide read on 10 November (15). 1,048,576 tokens shared between input and output (15). Batch at half price on the platform (10). Python and JavaScript SDKs (10). Error codes with backoff guidance (10 of 15). 20 + 13 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 93.",
          "b": "Model reading of the checklist (tool use, structured output, caching, context, throughput, defaults and SDKs, errors). OpenAI-format tools come back as `tool_calls` in three selectable wire formats, with a multi-turn loop example. Forced `tool_choice` and parallel calls aren't documented (15 of 20). JSON mode and schemas only through each runtime's guided decoding, not documented by the makers (5 of 15). Prefix caching is the runtime's, and SGLang's page covers HiCache (7 of 10). 524,288 tokens on five of six models, 131,072 on the 0.9B (14 of 15). Uno adapters claim 2.15 times faster decoding for 0.9B to 32B but need IFM's own engine. SGLang lists n-gram speculative decoding and PD disaggregation. No batch mode of its own (7 of 10). Any OpenAI SDK works against a local server, and the 0.9B to 7B fit one GPU. But the cards ask for high effort and 32,768 output tokens on every request, the template inserts an identity system prompt when none is sent, and earlier assistant turns must carry a string thinking field (8 of 15). The template raises named errors for bad options, string-encoded tool arguments and malformed schemas. Server errors are the runtime's (9 of 15). 15 + 5 + 7 + 14 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 65."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 93,
          "b": 65
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 24,
        "category": "security",
        "leads": "gemini-4-carbon",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Keys bound to a service account and restricted to the Gemini API, with no scopes and a token accepted in the URL (15 of 30, the platform's deduction). Carbon is on the paid tier only, and Google's terms say paid-tier content isn't used to improve products; AI Studio use under a Google AI Ultra subscription falls under terms we didn't read, so 15 of 20 (a judgement call; the platform's 10 is for its free tier). Abuse retention with no number, and new paid projects store requests by default since 26 October (5 of 15). Request logs for billed projects (15). security.txt and a reward programme, no certification naming the API (5 of 20). 15 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 5 = 55.",
          "b": "Read as software the owner runs. No account or key, ungated downloads, and server authentication is the owner's to add (12 of 30). A model that calls whatever tools the operator wires in. The cards rule high-stakes decisions without human oversight out of scope, but nothing in the model or template enforces approval (6 of 20). The template renders tool results in their own `tool` role, but string results go in as raw text (only non-string content is serialised with `tojson`), no escaping of special-token sequences in caller or tool text was found, and no injection guidance or results are published (4 of 15). No call log of its own. Visibility depends on the serving stack (5 of 15). Every launch command passes `--trust-remote-code`, so `modeling_k2_horizon.py` from the repository runs on the host. We read it and found only torch and transformers imports. No security.txt on ifm.ai (404 on 17 October, not re-read), no security contact on the cards and no safety evaluation found. Since 25 October the cards link a technical report on ifm.ai, which answered a Cloudflare bot check on 4 November, so what it covers is unread (4 of 20). 12 + 6 + 4 + 5 + 4 = 31."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 55,
          "b": 31
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 21,
        "category": "maintenance",
        "leads": "gemini-4-carbon",
        "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Released to developers on 10 November 2026, with the platform's changelog (30). Deprecations with earliest dates and no stated minimum notice (4 of 12). Shutdowns in the last 90 days kept to their table (4 of 8). Dated changelog (15). SDK replies not sampled (5 of 10). Current SDKs (15). Runtimes stated (10). 30 + 4 + 4 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 10 = 83.",
          "b": "Read for an open-weight model released on 15 October 2026. The last change to the template or code was on 15 October, within 30 days. The cards gained a technical report link on 25 October and a citation update on 27 October, which change no file a runtime loads (30). One family release, with dated builds before it (FP8 from 29 September, MLX from 1 October, GGUF on 12 and 13 October) and template fixes on 14 and 15 October, but no deprecation notices or successor history to judge. K2 Horizon came on 1 September and Jais 2 in December 2025 (10 of 20, the model reading of this line, held). One outside question, on MoVA-36B-A4B on 26 October, had no reply on 4 November, and IFM's GitHub repositories weren't read. The template fixes match the problem IFM's MLX cards describe (7 of 25, held). Recipes in vLLM's and SGLang's own docs, K2 Horizon support in llama.cpp's tagged builds from b11454 and FP8, GGUF and MLX builds from IFM, but no native mlx-lm support (11 of 15). Current dependencies (Transformers 5.13 to 5.15, vLLM 0.30), with no CI visible (4 of 10). 30 + 10 + 7 + 11 + 4 = 62."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 83,
          "b": 62
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 17,
        "category": "transparency",
        "leads": "gemini-4-carbon",
        "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Closed service with clear terms, SDKs Apache-2.0 (15). Paid-tier data isn't used, abuse retention has no number, and request storage is on by default for new paid projects (20 of 30). Deprecations table (15 of 20). Data may be cached anywhere Google has facilities; no subprocessor list checked (5 of 20). Every benchmark figure is Google's own. 15 + 20 + 15 + 5 = 55.",
          "b": "Apache-2.0 in every card's metadata, with staged training checkpoints as branches and training logs linked on Weights \u0026 Biases (not opened). There is no LICENSE file and the code repository is still 'coming soon'. A technical report is linked from 25 October but sits behind a bot check, so its data description is unread (24 of 30). Inputs stay on the owner's hardware because nothing is hosted, but no statement says so and no privacy document governs the weights (15 of 30). No deprecation policy, dated notices or version scheme (0 of 20). Safetensors weights carry no code, and the remote modelling and configuration code we read imports only torch, transformers and huggingface_hub, with no network calls. No telemetry statement (12 of 20). 24 + 15 + 0 + 12 = 51."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 72,
          "b": 55
        }
      }
    ],
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "Model API",
        "b": "Model API",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Google",
        "b": "Institute of Foundation Models (MBZUAI) and Inception42",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "API key",
        "b": "None",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Pay per use",
        "b": "Free",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Closed model, used through the Gemini API and Google's apps under Google's terms",
        "b": "Apache-2.0, declared in the metadata of every model card read. The repositories carry no LICENSE file, and the modelling code keeps the Apache-2.0 header of the Qwen3-MoE code it was generated from",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-11-10",
        "b": "2026-10-15",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-04-28",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-01",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "not read yet",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "not read yet",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "not read yet",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not read yet",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not read yet",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "2.5/5 (4)",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Gemini 4 Carbon scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Gemini 4 Carbon or Jais 3?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Gemini 4 Carbon needs an API key. Jais 3 needs no key.",
        "question": "Do Gemini 4 Carbon and Jais 3 need an API key?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Gemini 4 Carbon has a hosted endpoint at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta. No hosted endpoint is listed for Jais 3.",
        "question": "Can an agent call Gemini 4 Carbon and Jais 3 without installing anything?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 54",
          "Agent ergonomics, 93 against 65",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 31",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 62",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 55"
        ],
        "also": [
          "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install"
        ],
        "goodFor": "Agents on the hardest long tasks (multi-step debugging, large codebases, open-ended research, security work) that can pay frontier prices and already use the Gemini API.",
        "slug": "gemini-4-carbon",
        "watchFor": "Paid tier only, with no free tier to try it on"
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 48 against 40",
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20"
        ],
        "also": [
          "No key needed to call it",
          "Free to start without a card"
        ],
        "goodFor": "An agent or team that needs Arabic and English reasoning and tool use on its own hardware, from a laptop-sized 0.9B to a cluster-sized 375B, under Apache-2.0.",
        "slug": "jais-3",
        "watchFor": "Every documented vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and MLX command passes `--trust-remote-code`, so the repository's Python runs on the host"
      }
    ],
    "history": {
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      "jais-3": [
        {
          "causes": [
            "method"
          ],
          "date": "2026-10-27",
          "delta": 0.4,
          "from": 51.7,
          "fromGrade": "D",
          "to": 52.1,
          "toGrade": "D"
        }
      ]
    },
    "job": {
      "capability": "inference.llm",
      "name": "LLM inference"
    },
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  "markdown": "Gemini 4 Carbon scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Gemini 4 Carbon: grade B, 62.6/100, rank #555 of 1518. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-4-carbon.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-4-carbon.json\n- Jais 3: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #1003 of 1518. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jais-3.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jais-3.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 1000 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Gemini 4 Carbon (B)\n\nGood for: Agents on the hardest long tasks (multi-step debugging, large codebases, open-ended research, security work) that can pay frontier prices and already use the Gemini API.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 54\n- Agent ergonomics, 93 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 31\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 62\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 55\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Paid tier only, with no free tier to try it on\n\n### Jais 3 (D)\n\nGood for: An agent or team that needs Arabic and English reasoning and tool use on its own hardware, from a laptop-sized 0.9B to a cluster-sized 375B, under Apache-2.0.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 48 against 40\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Every documented vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and MLX command passes `--trust-remote-code`, so the repository's Python runs on the host\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Jais 3 +40\n\n- Gemini 4 Carbon (20): Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No machine payment protocol (0). Introductory prices published in Google's 28 October announcement without a login, $2 and $10, then $4 and $20; the Gemini API pricing page as read on 10 November showed no Carbon row, so the figures rest on the announcement (20). No free tier: Google's developer post puts Carbon on the paid tier (0). A Google account and AI Studio for a key (0). 0 + 20 + 0 + 0 = 20.\n- Jais 3 (60): Self-hosted rule. Apache-2.0 weights with nothing to buy and no hosted option from the makers (20). Free to run with no card (20). Downloads are ungated and anonymous, so an agent can fetch the weights with no sign-up (20). No payment protocol (0). 20 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 60.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Gemini 4 Carbon +31\n\n- Gemini 4 Carbon (85): Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Discovery document for GenerateContent (20 of 25). llms.txt with Markdown twins (10). The Cloud developer guide says what Carbon takes and refuses, the parameters that return 400 or are ignored, and how to migrate (15 of 20). Structured output to a JSON Schema with some keywords not enforced (10 of 15). Examples and an errors page (15). Dated changelog and model versions (15). 20 + 10 + 15 + 10 + 15 + 15 = 85.\n- Jais 3 (54): Read for a model the owner serves. No specification of its own. The contract is the Jinja chat template, which validates tool JSON Schemas (required fields must exist in properties) and rejects unknown options, plus the OpenAI-compatible servers in vLLM and SGLang with the `k2_horizon` parsers (10 of 25). The cards are Markdown on Hugging Face, and SGLang's docs have an llms.txt, but no llms.txt or Markdown docs from IFM were found and ifm.ai couldn't be read (5 of 10). Each card states intended use, four out-of-scope uses, limitations and per-size serving advice (15 of 20). `reasoning_effort` and `tool_call_format` are enums enforced with errors, and tools take JSON Schema. The 375B card describes `low` as no reasoning and omits `medium`, which the template accepts, and structured output isn't documented (10 of 15). Python examples for a reasoning call and a tool loop, commands for five runtimes, and named template errors, but no error reference for a served model (11 of 15). No changelog or version scheme. Training-stage branches and public commit history (3 of 15). 10 + 5 + 15 + 10 + 11 + 3 = 54.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Gemini 4 Carbon +28\n\n- Gemini 4 Carbon (93): Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Function calling, with forced calls by FunctionCallingConfig on the API (20). Structured output (13 of 15). Implicit caching with durable caching on by default, cached input 95% off, explicit caches not supported, per the Cloud guide read on 10 November (15). 1,048,576 tokens shared between input and output (15). Batch at half price on the platform (10). Python and JavaScript SDKs (10). Error codes with backoff guidance (10 of 15). 20 + 13 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 93.\n- Jais 3 (65): Model reading of the checklist (tool use, structured output, caching, context, throughput, defaults and SDKs, errors). OpenAI-format tools come back as `tool_calls` in three selectable wire formats, with a multi-turn loop example. Forced `tool_choice` and parallel calls aren't documented (15 of 20). JSON mode and schemas only through each runtime's guided decoding, not documented by the makers (5 of 15). Prefix caching is the runtime's, and SGLang's page covers HiCache (7 of 10). 524,288 tokens on five of six models, 131,072 on the 0.9B (14 of 15). Uno adapters claim 2.15 times faster decoding for 0.9B to 32B but need IFM's own engine. SGLang lists n-gram speculative decoding and PD disaggregation. No batch mode of its own (7 of 10). Any OpenAI SDK works against a local server, and the 0.9B to 7B fit one GPU. But the cards ask for high effort and 32,768 output tokens on every request, the template inserts an identity system prompt when none is sent, and earlier assistant turns must carry a string thinking field (8 of 15). The template raises named errors for bad options, string-encoded tool arguments and malformed schemas. Server errors are the runtime's (9 of 15). 15 + 5 + 7 + 14 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 65.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Gemini 4 Carbon +24\n\n- Gemini 4 Carbon (55): Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Keys bound to a service account and restricted to the Gemini API, with no scopes and a token accepted in the URL (15 of 30, the platform's deduction). Carbon is on the paid tier only, and Google's terms say paid-tier content isn't used to improve products; AI Studio use under a Google AI Ultra subscription falls under terms we didn't read, so 15 of 20 (a judgement call; the platform's 10 is for its free tier). Abuse retention with no number, and new paid projects store requests by default since 26 October (5 of 15). Request logs for billed projects (15). security.txt and a reward programme, no certification naming the API (5 of 20). 15 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 5 = 55.\n- Jais 3 (31): Read as software the owner runs. No account or key, ungated downloads, and server authentication is the owner's to add (12 of 30). A model that calls whatever tools the operator wires in. The cards rule high-stakes decisions without human oversight out of scope, but nothing in the model or template enforces approval (6 of 20). The template renders tool results in their own `tool` role, but string results go in as raw text (only non-string content is serialised with `tojson`), no escaping of special-token sequences in caller or tool text was found, and no injection guidance or results are published (4 of 15). No call log of its own. Visibility depends on the serving stack (5 of 15). Every launch command passes `--trust-remote-code`, so `modeling_k2_horizon.py` from the repository runs on the host. We read it and found only torch and transformers imports. No security.txt on ifm.ai (404 on 17 October, not re-read), no security contact on the cards and no safety evaluation found. Since 25 October the cards link a technical report on ifm.ai, which answered a Cloudflare bot check on 4 November, so what it covers is unread (4 of 20). 12 + 6 + 4 + 5 + 4 = 31.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Gemini 4 Carbon +21\n\n- Gemini 4 Carbon (83): Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Released to developers on 10 November 2026, with the platform's changelog (30). Deprecations with earliest dates and no stated minimum notice (4 of 12). Shutdowns in the last 90 days kept to their table (4 of 8). Dated changelog (15). SDK replies not sampled (5 of 10). Current SDKs (15). Runtimes stated (10). 30 + 4 + 4 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 10 = 83.\n- Jais 3 (62): Read for an open-weight model released on 15 October 2026. The last change to the template or code was on 15 October, within 30 days. The cards gained a technical report link on 25 October and a citation update on 27 October, which change no file a runtime loads (30). One family release, with dated builds before it (FP8 from 29 September, MLX from 1 October, GGUF on 12 and 13 October) and template fixes on 14 and 15 October, but no deprecation notices or successor history to judge. K2 Horizon came on 1 September and Jais 2 in December 2025 (10 of 20, the model reading of this line, held). One outside question, on MoVA-36B-A4B on 26 October, had no reply on 4 November, and IFM's GitHub repositories weren't read. The template fixes match the problem IFM's MLX cards describe (7 of 25, held). Recipes in vLLM's and SGLang's own docs, K2 Horizon support in llama.cpp's tagged builds from b11454 and FP8, GGUF and MLX builds from IFM, but no native mlx-lm support (11 of 15). Current dependencies (Transformers 5.13 to 5.15, vLLM 0.30), with no CI visible (4 of 10). 30 + 10 + 7 + 11 + 4 = 62.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Gemini 4 Carbon +17\n\n- Gemini 4 Carbon (72): Model reading for gemini-4-carbon on the Gemini API. Platform facts are the Gemini API listing's (gemini-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Closed service with clear terms, SDKs Apache-2.0 (15). Paid-tier data isn't used, abuse retention has no number, and request storage is on by default for new paid projects (20 of 30). Deprecations table (15 of 20). Data may be cached anywhere Google has facilities; no subprocessor list checked (5 of 20). Every benchmark figure is Google's own. 15 + 20 + 15 + 5 = 55.\n- Jais 3 (55): Apache-2.0 in every card's metadata, with staged training checkpoints as branches and training logs linked on Weights \u0026 Biases (not opened). There is no LICENSE file and the code repository is still 'coming soon'. A technical report is linked from 25 October but sits behind a bot check, so its data description is unread (24 of 30). Inputs stay on the owner's hardware because nothing is hosted, but no statement says so and no privacy document governs the weights (15 of 30). No deprecation policy, dated notices or version scheme (0 of 20). Safetensors weights carry no code, and the remote modelling and configuration code we read imports only torch, transformers and huggingface_hub, with no network calls. No telemetry statement (12 of 20). 24 + 15 + 0 + 12 = 51.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Gemini 4 Carbon | Jais 3 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 48 | Jais 3 +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 54 | Gemini 4 Carbon +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 65 | Gemini 4 Carbon +28 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 55 | 31 | Gemini 4 Carbon +24 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | Jais 3 +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 62 | Gemini 4 Carbon +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 55 | Gemini 4 Carbon +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.6 · B** | **52.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Gemini 4 Carbon | Jais 3 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Google | Institute of Foundation Models (MBZUAI) and Inception42 |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta` | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed model, used through the Gemini API and Google's apps under Google's terms | Apache-2.0, declared in the metadata of every model card read. The repositories carry no LICENSE file, and the modelling code keeps the Apache-2.0 header of the Qwen3-MoE code it was generated from |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-11-10 | 2026-10-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-04-28 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not read yet |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Gemini 4 Carbon\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Jais 3\n\n- +0.4 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Gemini 4 Carbon.** Google's strongest model on the same Gemini API as Argon, with a 1M-token budget, function calling and structured output, at an introductory $2 and $10 per million tokens. Paid tier only, sampling parameters are ignored or refused, its launch stage isn't stated, and the price rises to $4 and $20 at a date Google hasn't given.\n\n**Jais 3.** Jais 3 runs on the owner's hardware through OpenAI-compatible servers in vLLM and SGLang, with tool calls, three reasoning levels and a 512K context, from a 2.2 GB 0.9B model to a 758 GB 375B one. The weights download without sign-up under Apache-2.0, but every launch command trusts remote code and no security contact is published.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Gemini 4 Carbon\n\n1. Call generateContent at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta with model gemini-4-carbon and an x-goog-api-key on a billed project\n2. Set thinking_level (LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH) instead of thinking_budget, and don't send temperature, top_p or top_k\n3. Count output against the same 1,048,576-token limit as the input, and set max_output_tokens for long answers\n4. Put static prompt content first so implicit caching applies; explicit caches aren't supported\n5. Use gemini-4-argon for most coding and knowledge work, and Carbon for the hardest long tasks, as Google suggests\n\n### Jais 3\n\n1. Start vLLM or SGLang with `--reasoning-parser k2_horizon`, and add `--tool-call-parser k2_horizon` (vLLM also `--enable-auto-tool-choice`) for tools, or tool calls come back as raw text\n2. Pass `reasoning_effort` (`high`, `medium` or `low`) and `tool_call_format` inside `chat_template_kwargs`. Other values return a template error\n3. Send each earlier assistant turn back with `reasoning_content` as a string, even an empty one. A missing or null thinking field makes the template raise an error\n4. Send your own system message, or set `default_system_prompt` to an empty string. Without one the template inserts an identity prompt naming IFM, Inception42 and Cerebras\n5. Budget at least 32,768 output tokens at `high` effort, which the cards recommend for every request\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Gemini 4 Carbon or Jais 3?\n\nGemini 4 Carbon scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Gemini 4 Carbon and Jais 3 need an API key?\n\nGemini 4 Carbon needs an API key. Jais 3 needs no key.\n\n### Can an agent call Gemini 4 Carbon and Jais 3 without installing anything?\n\nGemini 4 Carbon has a hosted endpoint at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta. 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