# Jev — typed decisions instead of text, for agents

> Source: https://openclawdatabase.com/jev/
> Last updated: 2026-09-24
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# Jev

TypeSafe AI's System One model. You give it a state and typed questions; it returns decisions with probabilities, in one parallel pass, for $0.042 per million input tokens with output free.

🟡 Early access since 2026-09-15

$0.042/MTok in · output free

70–500ms end to end

32K input context

No text generation, by design

Every agent harness makes dozens of small judgements per task. *Which model should handle this? Is this tool call safe to run? Which queue does this message belong in? Did the agent actually do what it just claimed?* Today those are usually answered by asking a frontier model in English and parsing the reply — slow, priced like prose, and free to invent an answer you never offered. **Jev is built for exactly that layer and nothing else.** You send a state and a set of typed questions; it returns every answer at once, each with a probability, and it **cannot return a value outside the schema you gave it**. It also cannot write your email, explain itself, or produce a single string — which is the trade.

The one-sentence version

Jev is not a smaller chatbot — it is a different shape of model: **System One** (fast, automatic judgement) to a frontier model's **System Two** (slow, deliberate reasoning), and the interesting builds use both, with Jev deciding and an LLM writing.

Guides

 [⚡ Setup — First Call in 10 Minutes Two access routes (early-access console, or OpenRouter with no waitlist), the Python and Node SDKs, the raw HTTP call, the Claude Code plugin, and the version-pinning gotcha that bites in production. Live](https://openclawdatabase.com/jev/setup/)
 [🧩 Use Cases in an Agent Model routing, gating destructive tool calls, support triage, lead scoring, value extraction, auditing an agent's own trace, and a browser loop that ran a flight search in about seven seconds. With the measurement discipline each one needs. Live](https://openclawdatabase.com/jev/use-cases/)

## The three question types

| Type | What you give it | What comes back | Good for |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Choice** | Named options, each with a description | The selected option, plus a probability for every option | Routing, categorising, picking one value from candidates |
| **Score** | Ordered levels (e.g. low / medium / high) | A score across those levels with confidence | Severity, sentiment, buying intent, risk |
| **Noul** | A yes/no statement and instructions | The probability the statement is true | "Is this urgent?", "Was a refund requested?", "Is this claim supported?" |

You can ask several questions about one state in a single request. **Adding questions barely changes the response time** and costs only the extra input tokens, which is why a triage call can ask four things at once instead of four times.

## At a Glance

| Factor | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| **What it is** | A System One model: typed, schema-constrained decisions with calibrated probabilities, sampled in parallel rather than token by token |
| **Who makes it** | TypeSafe AI. Jev is their first public model, in early access since 2026-09-15 |
| **Price** | **$0.042 per million input tokens** ($42 per billion); **output free** |
| **Latency** | 70–500ms end to end; measured evaluation times of 92–214ms in one tested run |
| **Input context** | 32K tokens |
| **Limits** | Choice cardinality up to 255; no image input yet; no text generation, no reasoning traces, no explanations |
| **Access** | console.typesafe.ai (early access) · OpenRouter `typesafe/jev-1.13` (no waitlist) · Cloudflare Workers AI · LangChain and Pydantic AI integrations |
| **Model id** | `jev-latest` by default — an alias that resolved to **Jev 1.13.0** when we checked. Pin it in production |
| **Best for** | The decision layer of an agent: routing, gating, triage, scoring, extraction from candidates, trace auditing |
| **Not for** | Chat, writing, code generation, anything that needs an explanation of *why* |

Read this before you trust a confidence number

"Cannot hallucinate" is a claim about **types**, not about truth. Restricting the output stops the model inventing a category — it does not guarantee the category it picks is the right one. In [AICodeKing's tests](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-09-17-jev-tested-browser-use-classification/), a question about cafeteria hours correctly returned `other` when that option existed, and returned **sales at 0.31 confidence** when the options were only billing, technical and sales. So: **always ship an other/unknown option and a human path**, and treat calibration as something to [measure on your own examples](https://openclawdatabase.com/jev/use-cases/#measure) before you wire a decision to an action.

## Tested breakdowns we've published

- [Tested: routing, negation, a prompt-injection attempt and a browser run](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-09-17-jev-tested-browser-use-classification/) (AICodeKing, 2026-09-17)
- [Live demos: gating a destructive tool call and scoring a sales lead](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-09-19-jev-system-one-demos-tool-gating/) (AiNow, 2026-09-19)

## Related on This Site

- [Cost calculator](https://openclawdatabase.com/tools/cost-calculator/) — Jev sits in its own vendor group, next to the frontier models you would otherwise use for these calls
- [What is a System One model?](https://openclawdatabase.com/glossary/system-one-model/) · [Jev (glossary)](https://openclawdatabase.com/glossary/jev/) · [Calibration](https://openclawdatabase.com/glossary/calibration/)
- [Security center](https://openclawdatabase.com/security/) — gating tool calls, and why a classifier is a control rather than a guarantee
- [Release entry](https://openclawdatabase.com/changelog/2026-09-24/#jev) — what shipped, with the vendor's own numbers
- [Model & harness releases, Aug–Sep 2026](https://openclawdatabase.com/news/model-harness-releases-2026-09/) — where Jev sits among this month's launches

Sources, checked 2026-09-24: TypeSafe AI's [System One announcement](https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev) and [quickstart](https://docs.typesafe.ai/introduction/quickstart), [OpenRouter's Jev guide](https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/community/jev), and LangChain's [harness write-up](https://www.langchain.com/blog/building-a-harness-with-jev). Measured figures come from the tested video breakdowns we link, not from us. Jev is in early access and changing weekly.