Jamba Instruct: Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis
Analysis of AI21 Labs's Jamba Instruct and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more. Click on any model to compare API providers for that model. For more details including relating to our methodology, see our FAQs.
Base version (Jamba v0.1) is open-source, but this instruct-tuned variant is API-only with no direct model release available
Comparison Summary
Intelligence:Price:
Jamba Instruct is cheaper compared to average with a price of $0.55 per 1M Tokens (blended 3:1).
Jamba Instruct Input token price: $0.50, Output token price: $0.70 per 1M Tokens.
Speed:Jamba Instruct Input token price: $0.50, Output token price: $0.70 per 1M Tokens.
Jamba Instruct is faster compared to average, with a output speed of 163.5 tokens per second.
Latency:Jamba Instruct has a lower latency compared to average, taking 0.45s to receive the first token (TTFT).
Context Window:Jamba Instruct has a smaller context windows than average, with a context window of 260k tokens.
Highlights
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; Higher is better
Speed
Output Tokens per Second; Higher is better
Price
USD per 1M Tokens; Lower is better
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Comparisons to Jamba Instruct
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