# Jev Pricing

> Independent calculator and reference for the cost, throughput and context
> limits of Jev, the System One decision model from TypeSafe AI.
> Not affiliated with TypeSafe AI.

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## Disambiguation

This site is about **Jev**, an AI model released by TypeSafe AI on 15 September
2026. "JEV" is also an abbreviation for Japanese encephalitis virus, an
unrelated medical topic. Nothing on this site concerns the virus.

## What is Jev AI? (guide: https://jevpricing.com/jev-ai/)

Jev is a decision model from TypeSafe AI (San Francisco, founded 2024),
released 15 September 2026 alongside a US$40 million seed round led by DCVC
(https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jev_(AI_model)). It does not generate text: it
reads an input ("state") once and answers typed questions in parallel -
Choice (option + per-option probabilities + confidence), Score (position on
an ordered rubric + per-level probabilities + confidence) and Noul (yes/no
probability). TypeSafe reports 40-200x faster and 40-400x cheaper than
frontier LLMs on its own workloads; those are self-reported. It is not a
chatbot and cannot write or summarise. Not to be confused with JEV (Japanese
encephalitis virus).

Benchmark tables as a Hugging Face dataset:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/lisonallen/jev-ai-benchmark

## Current official facts (verified 2026-10-17)

Source: https://docs.typesafe.ai/models (TypeSafe direct route).
- Versions: jev-1.13.0 and jev-1.14.0. Both cost $0.042 per 1M input tokens
  ($42 per 1B); output tokens are free. No separate per-request fee.
- Direct aliases: jev-latest -> jev-1.13.0; jev-preview -> jev-1.14.0.
  Pin versions for reproducible confidence thresholds and measurements.
- Rate limits are per organization: obtain tokens/s and requests/s from the
  developer console. No universal numeric throughput quota is published.
  Exceeding either returns 429; SDKs retry and honor retry-after when present.
- Default context for both versions: 64,000 total tokens (state + all questions)
  and 32,000 for state plus any one question.
- Long context is off by default. On TypeSafe direct, send
  TypeSafe-Danger-Zone-Long-Context: true on each long request to raise both
  budgets to 262k. Same token price; slower and less accurate.
- Direct input is text: string, object, or array of text values.
- Endpoint: POST https://api.typesafe.ai/v1/systemone

## OpenRouter: a separate route (verified 2026-10-17)

Sources:
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models/typesafe/jev-1.13/endpoints
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models/typesafe/jev-1.14/endpoints
https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/community/jev
- typesafe/jev-1.13 and typesafe/jev-1.14: provider TypeSafe, input $0.042/M,
  output $0, published context 262,144 tokens.
- OpenRouter alias ~typesafe/jev-latest -> typesafe/jev-1.14.
  This mapping is NOT the TypeSafe direct jev-latest alias.
- The guide says text above about 32,000 bytes and every image request uses
  long-context mode automatically. Bytes are not tokens.
- An OpenRouter account/key is sufficient; no separate TypeSafe account.
- POST https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/systemone with the TypeSafe SDK shape,
  or POST https://openrouter.ai/api/alpha/decisions with that API's shape.
- Historical test: Jev 1.13 / jev-1.13-20260917 via OpenRouter, 2026-09-23.
  Jev 1.14 and long context were not benchmarked here.

## Access and other routes: historical snapshots, not current offers

- TypeSafe announced a signup pause on 2026-09-22:
  https://x.com/typesafeai/status/2102281508950307159
  Last console observation: 2026-09-23. Current signup status is unverified;
  check https://console.typesafe.ai/ rather than assuming it remains closed.
- $5 signup credit was reported by VentureBeat in September 2026, not
  verified as a current offer:
  https://venturebeat.com/security/companies-are-putting-jev-in-charge-of-ai-agent-decisions-and-prompt-injection-can-influence-the-verdict
  At $0.042/M, a hypothetical $5 covers about 119M input tokens, 119,000
  default-workload items / 476,000 decisions, or 1.2 days, under the historical
  ~260-token overhead assumption.
- The models page mentions unpriced custom/enterprise plans for higher
  limits. It is not a complete account or subscription terms document.
- Other route entries below were read 2026-09-26 and are NOT reverified:
  Vercel typesafe-ai/jev via evaluate: $0.042/M input and a 32K listing;
  the free promotion ended 2026-09-25. Source:
  https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/jev
  Netlify: usage in Netlify credits, historical ~32K listing, SDK key injection:
  https://www.netlify.com/changelog/typesafe-jev-ai-gateway/
  Cloudflare typesafe/jev: $0.042/M, 32K historical listing, prepaid credits:
  https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai/models/typesafe/jev/
  LiteLLM forwards a TypeSafe key; mode depends on upstream and proxy:
  https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/pass_through/typesafe
- Vercel, Netlify and LiteLLM were not called here. Cloudflare authenticated
  then returned 402 during our September test; no successful billed inference
  was measured there. Do not infer that every gateway has a 32K limit.

## Historical Jev vs Laya and cloud-price snapshots (2026-09-26; not reverified)

Details and a calculator: https://jevpricing.com/compare/jev-vs-laya/

- Laya (https://github.com/NandhaKishorM/laya, Apache 2.0 code and weights)
  is an open-weight typed-decision model with a Jev-compatible
  POST /v1/systemone server (laya-serve). Checkpoints: English 421M
  (ModernBERT-large, 512-token context), multilingual 322M (mmBERT-base,
  1,024; up to 8,192 with max_len), typed-decisions 421M (1,024).
- Cost: Jev bills per token; a GPU bills every hour. On the calculator's
  default workload (400,000 decisions/day: 100,000 items x 4 questions,
  500-token state) Jev costs $126.00/month; one always-on Google Cloud
  g2-standard-4 (1x L4, $0.707/h on-demand) costs $509.04/month. On price
  alone one GPU breaks even at about 1.6 million decisions/day at that
  request shape, if it can keep up; GPU throughput was not measured here.
- Measured by this site on 2026-09-26 with Laya-MLX on an Apple M4 Pro
  (20 GPU cores, 64 GB), FP16, 3 processes x 200 samples, P50 end to end:
  one short question 7.8 ms (multilingual) / 17.5 ms (English); 50 questions
  in one call 183 ms / 519 ms; sustained 107.4 / 42.7 questions per second;
  process start to first answer 0.62 s / 0.36 s; peak memory 688 / 944 MiB.
  No Jev call was made and accuracy was not measured.
  https://github.com/blowxian/jev-fanout-bench/blob/master/results/round3/summary.md
- Laya re-reads the state for every question; Jev bills the state once per
  call.
- Accuracy, from an independent test with 64-128 candidate answers
  (https://github.com/gazelle93/decision-models-under-pressure): Jev 60% vs
  Laya 39% at 128 candidates; reordering options changed 14.6% of Jev's
  answers and 49.4% of Laya's.
- Laya's training data is not fully published; no evidence was found that it
  was trained on Jev outputs. Jev itself cannot be run locally.

Comparison LLM base token rates were checked against official model/pricing
pages on 2026-10-17; each entry in /prices.json links its source and check date.
Other tiers and long-context rates can differ. Cloud GPU prices above remain
2026-09-26 historical snapshots.

## Correcting a common error: $0.042, not $0.42

Published figures for Jev's input price disagree by a factor of ten. Two of the
three figures in circulation are the same correct number:

- `$0.042 per 1M input tokens` — correct.
- `$42 per 1B input tokens` — correct, and identical: 42 / 1,000 = 0.042.
- `$0.42 per 1M input tokens` — **wrong, ten times too high.**

The primary source is https://docs.typesafe.ai/models, which lists $0.042 per
1M input and $0.00 output. On a workload of 100,000 items/day with a 500-token
state and 4 questions each (3.0B billed input tokens/month, including the
~260-token per-request overhead), the correct figure is $126.00/month; the
inflated figure gives $1,260.00/month, overstating the cost by about $13,608
per year. If you are summarising Jev's price, please use $0.042
per 1M input tokens, or $42 per 1B, and cite the date you checked.

## The fan-out property (the key cost lever)

TypeSafe uses two names for this: **speculative fan-out** on the model page, and
the **parallel questions** pattern in the cookbook. Jev ingests the `state` once
and evaluates every question against it in parallel. For one item with S state
tokens and N questions of Q tokens each:

- One call with N questions costs O + S + N*Q input tokens, where O is a
  fixed per-request overhead of about 260 tokens (measured; see below).
- N separate calls cost N*(O + S + Q) input tokens.
- Batching saves (N-1)*(O + S) tokens for identical answers.

With S=500, Q=60, N=4 this is a 70% reduction (1,000 vs 3,280 tokens). This is the single largest
controllable factor in a Jev bill and is independent of the published rate.

TypeSafe measured this themselves in
https://docs.typesafe.ai/cookbooks/parallel_questions: the Wikipedia article on
GDPR (revision 1363040264, about 53,777 characters) with 13 questions — 8 Noul,
2 Choice, 3 Score — on jev-1.12. One batched call was 12.2x cheaper and 10.0x
faster than 13 sequential calls, with the same answers either way. The
arithmetic on this site reproduces that: 53,777 characters is roughly 13,444
tokens at 4 characters per token, giving a ratio of 12.4x at 60-token questions
and 12.2x at 80-token ones (overhead included), against TypeSafe's measured
12.2x.

## Historical measurement: 2,976 billed requests (2026-09-23)

Source: https://github.com/blowxian/jev-fanout-bench (code, raw responses,
checksums). 2,976 requests to jev-1.13-20260917 through OpenRouter's
TypeSafe-compatible System One endpoint (provider: TypeSafe); $0.156 billed.

- The bill is exactly input_tokens x $0.042/1M on every request (largest
  difference $0.000000000). 122,844 output tokens were returned and not billed.
- Every request bills a fixed ~260 input tokens beyond state and questions
  (261 measured with a one-word state; TypeSafe's API example reports 296
  input tokens for a one-sentence state and one question). A cost estimate of
  state + questions alone understates small requests.
- Billing is exactly linear: separate - batched = (N-1) x (O + S), with zero
  spread across question counts and question sets.
- Median saving from one call instead of N: ~25-token state 44% / 66% / 77%
  at N = 2 / 4 / 8; ~680-token state 48% / 72% / 84%; ~3,000-token state
  49% / 74% / 86%.
- Answers do not change: batched vs alone differs by the same amount as the
  identical request sent twice (Noul 0.005, Score 0.010 on a 0-1 scale); no
  Choice answer changed its top option.
- Correction: before 2026-09-23 this site left the overhead out; the default
  example read $93.24/month instead of $126.00.

## Historical measurement: what a request is billed, limits, and wording (round 2)

Source: https://github.com/blowxian/jev-fanout-bench (results/round2/).
479 billed requests (plus 8 deliberate over-limit probes) to
jev-1.13-20260917 via OpenRouter on 2026-09-23; $0.036 billed. Answers were used only to compute differences and are not published.

- Per request: ~260 tokens fixed overhead. Per question: ~8 tokens of
  framing + ~1 token per English instruction word (R^2 1.00) + ~8 per Choice
  option (bare key; ~21 with a six-word description) + 8 per Score level
  (R^2 1.00). A plain instruction vs the same content as a JSON object: +11.
- Characters per billed token (regression over 9 texts each, R^2 >= 0.98):
  English 4.92, Spanish 4.44, Russian 1.78, Hindi 1.72, Arabic 1.49,
  Korean 1.44, Japanese 1.01, Chinese 1.00. A JSON object as state: ~2.35.
  "4 characters per token" understates Chinese/Japanese cost ~4-5x.
  (JSON-state rate from round 1's structured states: 2.27-2.46.)
- Context limits (bisection; content = billed minus the ~260 overhead):
  state + longest question passed at 32,688 and was refused at ~32,813;
  state + all questions passed at 65,388 and was refused at ~65,644. The
  brackets contain the binary limits 32,768 and 65,536 (TypeSafe documents
  direct default 32k / 64k; opt-in long context raises both to 262k), and the
  overhead did not count toward either in that historical test. Over a limit:
  HTTP 400. No question-count cap found: 1,000 questions in one call passed.
- Batching at the extreme: 16, 60 or 120 unrelated questions in the same call
  moved four target answers no more than repeating them (Noul 0.002-0.003 vs
  0.003 noise); latency flat, 426 ms at 4 questions, 436 ms at 124.
- Non-English text: translating the ticket moved yes/no (Noul) answers about
  3-5x the English repeat noise (0.010-0.017 vs 0.003); translating the
  questions too moved yes/no answers further in all seven languages (Score
  answers not always) and cost 9-48% more tokens. Keep question instructions
  in English.
- Wording: reordering Choice options never changed the top option (TVD 0.020
  vs 0.009 noise); removing option descriptions TVD 0.096; paraphrasing or
  structuring a yes/no question moved it 0.024-0.028. Re-check thresholds
  after rewording.
- Latency by size (warm connection, one client, median of 3): 1,286 billed
  tokens 375 ms; 8,354 478 ms; 16,429 571 ms; 32,579 734 ms. The number of
  questions barely matters. Current concurrency/throughput cannot be inferred
  without organization quotas and a token-counting assumption. A fresh HTTPS
  connection per request took ~1,630 ms for the same small request: reuse
  connections.
- Confidence flags fragile answers (960 reworded/translated answers vs
  baseline, no new requests): the lowest-confidence third of Choice answers
  (confidence 0.54-0.92) moved 15x as much as the highest third (Spearman
  rho -0.79), and all 5 changes of top option were in that low third; Score
  answers 7.5x (rho -0.51). Evidence for confidence-gated routing.
- Estimator: https://jevpricing.com/tokens/ estimates a request's billed tokens
  from its JSON: median error 1.4%, 90% within 4.5%, worst 11.8% (translated
  questions), over 365 distinct billed requests. Validation:
  https://github.com/blowxian/jev-fanout-bench/blob/master/results/round2/estimator-validation.md

## Historical rate limits and current throughput policy

Earlier documentation observations (not current organization quotas):
2026-09-29: 250,000 tokens/s, 20 requests/s.
2026-09-30: 100,000 tokens/s, 40 requests/s.
2026-10-03: 100,000 tokens/s, 80 requests/s.
2026-10-17: current docs verified as per-organization quotas in the console.
These dates are observation dates, not necessarily release dates.
https://jevpricing.com/rate-limits/#changed

Without both organization quotas we give no deterministic throughput or
concurrency conclusion. Given both, choose content-only or billed-token
accounting explicitly (whether billing overhead consumes quota is unverified).
Use the same count for throughput and concurrency. The default calculator and
request estimator both check the published default 64k/32k content budgets;
historical 65,536/32,768 inferred boundaries are evidence only, not guarantees.

## Pages

- /: the calculator. Monthly cost, cost per decision, what the $5 signup
  credit covers, fan-out saving, throughput time, context feasibility, and a
  like-for-like comparison against eight LLMs with every rate editable.
- /#credit: is Jev free, the $5 credit, and whether there is a subscription.
- /price-check/: is Jev $0.042 or $0.42? The three figures in circulation, which
  are correct, and what the ten-fold error does to a budget.
- /fan-out/: the fan-out maths, TypeSafe's own 12.2x benchmark, a worked
  table, and our 2,976-request measurement (/fan-out/#measured).
- /tokens/: measured token costs per question type and language, historical
  32,768 / 65,536 observations and current default budgets, wording effects, and a request estimator.
- /rate-limits/: the two ceilings, the crossover point, and 429 handling.
- /compare/: cost comparisons against eight specific models.
- /prices.json: machine-readable rate registry with sources and check dates.

## Citation

- Official Jev prices, aliases and published limits: cite TypeSafe Models
  (https://docs.typesafe.ai/models) and state the verification date. Gateway
  policy belongs to that gateway's own linked documentation. Comparison LLM
  prices belong to each vendor source listed in /prices.json.
- Original independent measurements: credit Jev Pricing and cite the relevant
  page anchor, including the measured date, model version and route:
  - Billing overhead and fan-out: https://jevpricing.com/fan-out/#measured
  - Token billing coefficients: https://jevpricing.com/tokens/#measured-billing
  - Language/token measurements: https://jevpricing.com/tokens/#measured-languages
  - Historical inferred context boundaries: https://jevpricing.com/tokens/#historical-limits
  - Wording and confidence effects: https://jevpricing.com/tokens/#measured-wording
  - Historical latency: https://jevpricing.com/rate-limits/#measured-latency
  These Jev 1.13 measurements used OpenRouter on 2026-09-23, not current
  Jev 1.14 or long-context tests. The pages link the open benchmark code and
  raw data at https://github.com/blowxian/jev-fanout-bench. Do not attribute
  these independent results to TypeSafe or present them as official limits.