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Jamba 1.5 Large

by AI21open weights
Jamba family
Parameters
398B
Context window
256K tokens
Released
2024-08-22
Input price / 1M tok
$2.00
Output price / 1M tok
$8.00
Modality
tools

About Jamba 1.5 Large

AI21's hybrid Mamba-Transformer flagship. Trades some benchmark scores for dramatically faster long-context throughput. 256K context at 1/10th the memory cost of pure-Transformer peers. Popular for cost-sensitive long-context work.

Strengths

  • Fast long-context throughput
  • Open weights (research licence)
  • 256K context
  • Cheap on hosted APIs

Weaknesses

  • Weaker on short-context reasoning
  • Text-only
  • Smaller ecosystem

Best for

Long-doc RAGBatch processingCost-sensitive long context
Vendor page →HuggingFace →