Head to head · Decision models · October 2026 research run

JEV-27B-VL vs joey-1

JEV-27B-VL scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against joey-1's 57.1 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. joey-1 leads on reach and risk. Both do decision models.

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Which one, for what

JEV-27B-VL C

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

  • Agent interface, 80 against 70
  • Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 54

Watch for

Trained on labels distilled from TypeSafe's hosted Jev, whose customer agreement forbids distillation

joey-1 C

Best 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 50
  • Risk, 55 against 45

Watch for

Serving it needs OneJev at a pinned commit plus the repository's serve.patch, with no released runtime support

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runJEV-27B-VLjoey-1Edge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%255060joey-1 +10
Risk20%204555joey-1 +10
Agent interface10%108070JEV-27B-VL +10
Documentation and upkeep10%109254JEV-27B-VL +38
Negative events≤150-2
TotalC 59.5/100C 57.1/100

Facts side by side

FactJEV-27B-VLjoey-1
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorAutoTrust AI LabBaseten
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-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-2.0MIT, 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
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-022026-10-29
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno 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 reviews2.5/5 (4)none

Verdicts

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.

joey-1

A very small cousin for routing, triage and guardrail checks, answering several typed questions about one state, with text or images, as probabilities from one prefill. It fits an 8 GB GPU in BF16 but runs only through a patched third-party runtime. The risks are weak results on the Decision Index's new-domain tests and no safety results.

Before you call either

JEV-27B-VL

  1. Quickest start is hf download autotrust/JEV-27B-VL then bash 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
  2. On a released vLLM use plain vllm serve with --enable-lora --lora-modules jev-decision=JEV-27B-VL/adapter_vllm and do the card's client-side arithmetic with decision_head.json and calibration.json
  3. Keep --max-num-seqs 8, the card says larger batches return wrong System 1 probabilities on vLLM's multimodal LoRA path
  4. 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
  5. Choices beyond 16 options use labels the head never saw in training, and the response's adaptation field says wide-labels
  6. Downscale images to about 448 px to keep vision tokens and latency down
  7. Treat it as AutoTrust's model, not TypeSafe's, and its request shape differs from TypeSafe's /v1/systemone

joey-1

  1. Start on a CUDA GPU in pytorch/pytorch:2.8.0-cuda12.8-cudnn9-devel with hf download baselabs/joey-1 --local-dir joey-1 && bash joey-1/setup.sh, which clones OneJev at 81ce62f, applies serve.patch and installs the Decision Index kit
  2. Then call DecisionEngine("baselabs/joey-1", device="cuda:0").decide(SystemOneRequest(state=..., questions=...)) from qev, as the card shows
  3. Don't load it with stock vLLM or Transformers. They ignore the block-bidirectional attention in config.json's modeling_overrides and give probabilities the model wasn't trained for
  4. Keep each request under 16,384 tokens, the trained length, or the engine refuses it
  5. Expect weaker answers on domains unlike its training mix, and threshold on the returned probability before acting
  6. Without hardware, Baseten's /v1/systemone serves it as decision-models/baseten-joey-2b-latest with a Baseten key

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, JEV-27B-VL or joey-1?

JEV-27B-VL scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against joey-1's 57.1 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. joey-1 leads on reach and risk.

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