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      "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",
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      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jais-3.json",
      "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, OpenRouter lists no Jais model, and Hugging Face shows no inference provider for the main repositories (checked 2026-10-17).",
      "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": []
      },
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      "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"
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        "model",
        "open-weights",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "apache-2.0",
        "openai-compatible",
        "gpu",
        "apple-silicon",
        "mlx",
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        "graded": true,
        "score": 51.7,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 839,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 21,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 62,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 48,
          "schema": 54,
          "security": 31,
          "transparency": 50
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          "tasks"
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          "confidence": "medium",
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        "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 technical report or 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 merged into llama.cpp's master branch",
          "The chat template validates tool schemas and rejects unknown options with named errors, such as an unsupported `reasoning_effort`"
        ],
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          "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 technical report and code repository are marked 'coming soon', and IFM's own blog and press release 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 doesn't yet parse its reasoning or tool calls"
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          "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
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        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
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              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 51.7
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          "maintenance": 62,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 48,
          "schema": 54,
          "security": 31,
          "transparency": 51
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        "provenanceScore": 49
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        "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  }'"
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        "tool": "https://letme.dev/jais-3"
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      "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",
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        "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": 49
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    "answer": "Vercel AI Gateway scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
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      "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway",
      "name": "Vercel AI Gateway",
      "vendor": "Vercel Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://vercel.com",
      "kind": "router",
      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Vercel AI Gateway is a hosted router for model APIs. One API key or Vercel OIDC token reaches models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others through OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-compatible and AI SDK interfaces, with budgets, request logs and provider failover.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway",
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      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/vercel/ai",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Vercel's Terms of Service and AI Product Terms, with Token Pass terms on its docs page. Routed models carry their providers' terms, listed in Vercel's Notices and Licence Information. The `@ai-sdk/gateway` provider is Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "ai"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "ai"
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      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "An AI Gateway API key as a Bearer token from any environment, or a Vercel OIDC token on Vercel deployments (12 hours locally, refreshed with `vercel env pull`). Keys belong to a team, can be limited to one project and given an expiry and a budget, and are created in the dashboard, with the Vercel CLI or by `POST /v1/api-keys` with a Vercel access token. A person creates the Vercel account in a browser. Token Pass needs its own Token Pass API key, and OIDC tokens cannot spend Token Pass credit.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Prepaid AI Gateway Credits at each provider's list price, with no markup or platform fee, including BYOK. A monthly free credit covers a subset of models and needs a valid payment method on the team. Credits expire a year after purchase. Add-ons are billed separately, and Token Pass is $30 a team a month on Pro for $80 of credit on two models, in early access (https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing, https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/token-pass, checked 2026-10-17).",
      "priceSummary": "$30 / mo",
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      "x402": {
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        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the AI Gateway docs, the pricing page, the Token Pass pages or the AI Gateway entries of the changelog sitemap. Payment is by prepaid credits bought with a card, or by invoice on Enterprise (checked 2026-10-17).",
        "endpoints": []
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      "docsUrl": "https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway",
      "llmsTxt": "https://vercel.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://vercel.com/openapi.json",
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        "inference.llm",
        "inference.fast",
        "inference.decision",
        "obs.gateway",
        "obs.traces",
        "embed.text",
        "image.generate",
        "video.generate"
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      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "router",
        "usage-based",
        "prepaid",
        "free-tier",
        "openai-compatible",
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        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "oidc",
        "cli",
        "early-access",
        "status-page",
        "bug-bounty",
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      "graded": true,
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        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "payments": 20,
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          "schema": 74,
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        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
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        "negative": -3,
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          "April 2026. Vercel's security bulletin says an attacker took over an employee's account through a compromised third-party AI tool, reached internal systems and decrypted non-sensitive environment variables of a limited subset of customers. AI Gateway was generally available then, and its docs have deployments keep AI Gateway and Token Pass API keys as environment variables. The bulletin documents remediation and marks the incident closed on 16 October 2026, so 3 of a possible 15 is taken, as for vercel-connect (https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-incident)."
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        "verdict": "Token prices pass through with no markup, prompts are not stored by the gateway, and budgets, provider failover and per-request logs are built in. The free monthly credit needs a card on file, rate limits are not published as numbers, no SLA covers the API, and the contractual promise not to train on content applies to Enterprise subscriptions only.",
        "bestFor": "Teams that want one key, one bill, budgets and failover in front of many model providers, especially on Vercel with OIDC.",
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          "Token prices are each provider's list price with no markup or platform fee, including requests made with the customer's own provider keys",
          "The model list at `GET /v1/models` needs no key and gives prices, context windows, supported parameters and ZDR and no-training flags for 474 models",
          "Budgets per team, project, API key or team member reject spend with a 402, distinct from a 429 rate limit",
          "The gateway logs request metadata only. Prompt and response content is deleted when the request completes, per the FAQ and the ZDR page",
          "Failed provider attempts are retried on a model's other providers, and every routing attempt appears in the request logs"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The free monthly credit needs a valid payment method on the team, and its amount is not stated in the reviewed docs",
          "No rate-limit numbers are published, and the Enterprise SLA excludes the APIs, so the inference API carries no uptime commitment",
          "The contractual promise not to train on AI Gateway content covers Enterprise subscriptions only. Provider no-training and ZDR filters are opt-in per request",
          "A failed BYOK request falls back to Vercel's credentials and is billed to credits, and the no-training filter is not applied to BYOK",
          "Token Pass is early access for Pro teams only, covers two models, has no failover and fails with a 403 once the $80 credit is spent"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Read `GET https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models` without a key to pick a model ID and check its price, context, ZDR and no-training flags before calling",
          "Set `zeroDataRetention` or `disallowPromptTraining` to true in `providerOptions.gateway` on sensitive requests. Default routing ignores provider retention and training policies",
          "Treat a 429 as retryable and honour `retry-after` when present. A 402 with `quota_for_entity_exceeded` is a spent budget, so do not retry it",
          "On a Token Pass key, a 403 with `no_providers_available` means spent credit or a model outside the pass. Retry with a standard AI Gateway key, which bills credits",
          "Set `inferenceRegion` when data residency matters. The default `global` may run inference outside the user's jurisdiction"
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        "metrics": {
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          "measured": false
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        "reviewCount": 4,
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          "security": 79,
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      "connect": {
        "install": "pnpm add ai@latest",
        "http": "curl https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\n    \"model\": \"openai/gpt-6-astra\",\n    \"messages\": [\n      {\n        \"role\": \"user\",\n        \"content\": \"Explain AI Gateway in one sentence.\"\n      }\n    ]\n  }'"
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          "item": "Token Pass subscription (Pro teams)",
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          "usd": 30,
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        {
          "item": "Team-wide Zero Data Retention",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.1,
          "note": "Pro and Enterprise. Per-request ZDR is free"
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        {
          "item": "Team-wide provider allowlist",
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          "The Privacy Notice is effective from 1 June 2026. The DPA (effective 31 March 2026) applies to Pro and Enterprise plans.",
          "https://vercel.com/.well-known/security.txt points to HackerOne and responsible.disclosure@vercel.com and expires 2027-09-28.",
          "The API answers at ai-gateway.vercel.sh, a Vercel domain other than vercel.com. Management calls go to api.vercel.com.",
          "RDAP gives vercel.com a registration date of 1999-10-04, long before Vercel, so the domain was bought later.",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 326 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\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- 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- No incidents deducted, where Vercel AI Gateway loses 3 points for them\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### Vercel AI Gateway (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want one key, one bill, budgets and failover in front of many model providers, especially on Vercel with OIDC.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 74 against 48\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 54\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 31\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 62\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: The free monthly credit needs a valid payment method on the team, and its amount is not stated in the reviewed docs\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Jais 3 | Vercel AI Gateway | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 48 | 74 | Vercel AI Gateway +26 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 74 | Vercel AI Gateway +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 83 | Vercel AI Gateway +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 31 | 79 | Vercel AI Gateway +48 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | Jais 3 +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 79 | Vercel AI Gateway +17 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 70 | Vercel AI Gateway +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **51.7 · D** | **66.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Jais 3 | Vercel AI Gateway |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model router |\n| Vendor | Institute of Foundation Models (MBZUAI) and Inception42 | Vercel Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under Vercel's Terms of Service and AI Product Terms, with Token Pass terms on its docs page. Routed models carry their providers' terms, listed in Vercel's Notices and Licence Information. The `@ai-sdk/gateway` provider is Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-17 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-01 |\n| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 29.6M npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\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 technical report or security contact is published.\n\n**Vercel AI Gateway.** Token prices pass through with no markup, prompts are not stored by the gateway, and budgets, provider failover and per-request logs are built in. The free monthly credit needs a card on file, rate limits are not published as numbers, no SLA covers the API, and the contractual promise not to train on content applies to Enterprise subscriptions only.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Vercel AI Gateway\n\n1. Read `GET https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models` without a key to pick a model ID and check its price, context, ZDR and no-training flags before calling\n2. Set `zeroDataRetention` or `disallowPromptTraining` to true in `providerOptions.gateway` on sensitive requests. Default routing ignores provider retention and training policies\n3. Treat a 429 as retryable and honour `retry-after` when present. A 402 with `quota_for_entity_exceeded` is a spent budget, so do not retry it\n4. On a Token Pass key, a 403 with `no_providers_available` means spent credit or a model outside the pass. Retry with a standard AI Gateway key, which bills credits\n5. Set `inferenceRegion` when data residency matters. The default `global` may run inference outside the user's jurisdiction\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Jais 3 or Vercel AI Gateway?\n\nVercel AI Gateway scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Jais 3's 51.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Jais 3 leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Jais 3 and Vercel AI Gateway need an API key?\n\nJais 3 needs no key. Vercel AI Gateway takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Jais 3 and Vercel AI Gateway without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Jais 3. Vercel AI Gateway has a hosted endpoint at https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"jais-3\", \"b\": \"vercel-ai-gateway\"}`. 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