Kev 9B v2
Kev 9B v2 by Jared Palmer is a decision model: it answers typed questions with a probability for each allowed answer instead of generating text. It scores 43.3 on the Jev Decision Index (rank 72).
Pricing
No hosted price is listed. The weights are open: the cost is your own compute.
Specifications
- Provider
- Jared Palmer
- Parameters
- 10B
- Released
- Sep 2026
- Open weights
- Yes
- Question types
- Choice (one of N options), Score (ordered rubric), Yes / no
- Mechanism
- Decoder LM with a decision readout
- Backbone
- Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base
- Jev-compatible request
- Yes
- Runs on CPU
- No
- License
- apache-2.0
- Hugging Face
- jaredpalmer/kev-9b
Benchmarks
- Jev Decision IndexECE 0.045
- 43.3
- Jev Decision Indexedition 0.2.1 (earlier edition)
- 38.5
Jev Decision Index: public 41.5, ECE 0.045, Brier 0.451. Lower ECE means its probabilities can be taken at face value.
Self-reported by the publisher
The model's own claims, often on its own sets or a self-run copy of a public suite. Not independently verified and never ranked alongside measured results.
- breadth-v1 test: 14 held-out public datasets (3,089 questionSelf-reported
- 0.698
- devtools-v1 test (1,071 questions; six public developer-toolSelf-reported
- 0.791
- documents-v1 test (936 questions on CFPB complaint narrativeSelf-reported
- 0.900
- hard-v1 test (1,088 questions; programmatic labels, held-outSelf-reported
- 0.834
- transfer-v4 test: six never-trained public sources and held-Self-reported
- 0.852
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FAQ
How much does Kev 9B v2 cost?
Kev 9B v2 has no hosted price listed; its weights are open, so the cost is the compute you run it on.
What questions can Kev 9B v2 answer?
Kev 9B v2 answers choice (one of n options), score (ordered rubric), yes / no questions, returning a probability for each allowed answer.
Is Kev 9B v2 well calibrated?
On the Jev Decision Index its expected calibration error (ECE) is 0.045; below about 0.05, a stated 80% confidence is right roughly 80% of the time.
Is Kev 9B v2 open weight, and can it run on a CPU?
Yes, Kev 9B v2 has open weights. It needs a GPU to run at useful speed.
Data as of 2026-10-14. Source: Metatext decision-model catalogue, 2026-10-14 (Jev Decision Index, Enterprise Decision Arena, Hugging Face). Pricing is per 1M tokens (USD); confirm with the provider before production use.