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
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
| Category | Weight this run | JEV-27B-VL | joey-1 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | 35%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25%25 | 50 | 60 | joey-1 +10 |
| Risk | 20%20 | 45 | 55 | joey-1 +10 |
| Agent interface | 10%10 | 80 | 70 | JEV-27B-VL +10 |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10%10 | 92 | 54 | JEV-27B-VL +38 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| Total | C 59.5/100 | C 57.1/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | JEV-27B-VL | joey-1 |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | AutoTrust AI Lab | Baseten |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | 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 | 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 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-29 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no 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 reviews | 2.5/5 (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
- Quickest start is
hf download autotrust/JEV-27B-VLthenbash 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 - On a released vLLM use plain
vllm servewith--enable-lora --lora-modules jev-decision=JEV-27B-VL/adapter_vllmand do the card's client-side arithmetic with decision_head.json and calibration.json - Keep
--max-num-seqs 8, the card says larger batches return wrong System 1 probabilities on vLLM's multimodal LoRA path - 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
- Choices beyond 16 options use labels the head never saw in training, and the response's adaptation field says wide-labels
- Downscale images to about 448 px to keep vision tokens and latency down
- Treat it as AutoTrust's model, not TypeSafe's, and its request shape differs from TypeSafe's /v1/systemone
joey-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 - Then call
DecisionEngine("baselabs/joey-1", device="cuda:0").decide(SystemOneRequest(state=..., questions=...))from qev, as the card shows - 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
- Keep each request under 16,384 tokens, the trained length, or the engine refuses it
- Expect weaker answers on domains unlike its training mix, and threshold on the returned probability before acting
- 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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