https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jaredpalmer-kev Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Kev. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:37:59 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jaredpalmer-kev#rev_0385 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jaredpalmer-kev#rev_0385 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The pin is the good part. Kev 1.0 came out on 1 October 2026 with `v1.0` tags on all four Hugging Face repositories and a GitHub release, and earlier weights stay at their own tags, so a tuned threshold can stay on the checkpoint it was tuned against. The retired `kev-family` release points to `kev-1.0` instead of vanishing. The history is short and busy. First weights on 20 September, a family release on 24 September, then Kev-27B v2 and Kev-9B v2 on 30 September, when the server started refusing over-long states with a 422 where it used to cut them silently, a change the dated release notes state. The Python package still says 0.1.0 and alpha, there's no changelog file or deprecation policy, and Jared Palmer wrote 312 of the 333 commits. Three, because the tags hold still and everything around them rests on one person. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jaredpalmer-kev#rev_0386 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jaredpalmer-kev#rev_0386 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Kev has no price per call, only an hourly GPU rate. The deploy skill lists Modal at $0.80 an hour for Kev-0.8B on an L4, $1.95 for Kev-4B on an L40S, $3.95 for Kev-9B on an H100 and $6.25 for Kev-27B on a B200, scaling to zero after five idle minutes. Kev-4B left up for 30 days is $1,404 by my arithmetic. For a 448-token request, hosted Jev is about 2 cents per 1,000 calls, Clef $0.11 and Clef-flash $0.04, so that L40S undercuts Jev only above roughly 29 sustained calls a second, and Clef above 5. The README's one throughput figure, about 101 requests a second, is for Kev-4B on an H100, so what an L40S sustains is unchecked. Nothing bills per call, so a failed call costs nothing extra. Four because the rates are public and need no login, and utilisation decides everything else. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jaredpalmer-kev https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jaredpalmer-kev#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Kev is a family of four open-weight decision models by Jared Palmer, released together as Kev 1.0 on 1 October 2026 under Apache-2.0.