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JevBench is Benchmark Heaven’s MIT-licensed benchmark for Jev-class typed decision models: 534 English decisions per system in its v1.2 run plus 308 fresh sealed decisions in v1.4, 1,500 per system on the current v1.6 protocol, scored on chance-corrected intelligence, calibration, speed, and cost, with public items and frozen, hashed artifacts (per-task outcomes through v1.4.2.2, system-level aggregates since v1.6).

This is the first third-party scoreboard for this category, and its readings now frame the whole debate: on the public v1.2 board Jev led at 74.4 with SemIf’s frozen-4B logit readout 1.3 points behind, the sealed-decision v1.4 revision kept Jev first (63.3) while the open replicas fell away, the v1.4.2 through v1.4.2.2 point releases then pushed Jev to fourth behind three fine-tune stacks, and October’s v1.6.1 redesign rebuilt the board around open weights with Jev kept as the unranked reference at 71.5, which the open field first matched (Quyet-1.0-Large, 71.4) and then passed, H2O-Lightning-4B v1.1 leading the composite at 72.5 as of 2026-10-08, which is still the closest thing the category has to independent verification, arrived at by one runner’s contested methodology and now split across two boards.

What it is
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A benchmark harness by fstandhartinger under the Benchmark Heaven banner (benchmarkheaven.com), created 2026-09-19, MIT-licensed code, datasets, and scoring. The current v1.4 score blends 20% chance-corrected intelligence from the 308 fresh sealed decisions with 80% of the v1.3 intelligence axis, combines the four axes in an equal-weight harmonic mean, and cuts a system’s intelligence when its public-to-sealed accuracy gap exceeds 25 points, so nothing can rank high on items it has effectively seen. The earlier v1.3.0 score weighted Intelligence, Calibration, Speed, and Cost at 25% each in a geometric mean, with a growing penalty below 50 intelligence so a cheap fast guesser cannot rank high. Intelligence is measured above chance per tier (220 hard decisions written by Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, cross-reviewed, frozen, and hashed before any system ran, plus easy, standard, and judge tiers, 534 decisions per system in total). Calibration combines ECE on the hard tier with fidelity to exact gold distributions. Cost is priced in dollars per 1,000 decisions, not per 1,000 tokens, which is the unit that actually matters for this contract. The v1.2 board holds 48 ranked rows spanning hosted APIs, the open replicas, rerankers, and GLiNER-style classifiers, with classifier.dev listed as an honorable mention because its fast tier is Jev itself, and the v1.4.2 board held 93 measured systems, 89 of them ranked, before the v1.4.2.1 point release took it to 94 and 90 with the single addition of Plumb-4B and the v1.4.2.2 point release took it to 95 and 91 with the single addition of Imajev-4B. The October v1.6 restructure then rebuilt both boards (as of 2026-10-08): the main board now ranks open-weights systems only, run by Benchmark Heaven itself at 1,500 decisions per system, with Jev 1.13.0 the only API row kept on it as the unranked reference that defines the genre, hosted APIs split onto a separate API leaderboard (23 ranked, 600 equated items for the 19 rows re-run on 2026-10-06), and only system-level aggregate results published with a SHA-256, a retreat from the frozen per-task artifacts the v1.2 through v1.4.2.2 runs shipped.

Status
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Active and gaining traction, as of 2026-10-13. The repository was created 2026-09-19, pushed 2026-10-10, and shows 266 stars and 27 forks, with five scoring releases since my first check (v1.4.0 through v1.4.2.2, September 23-27); the live board has since moved through the v1.5.x series (v1.5.5 through v1.5.7 selectable on the site) to v1.6.0 and the current v1.6.1, running on board revision v1.7.46 as of 2026-10-13, with 155 ranked open-weights systems on the main board (27 newer rows tagged with their draw, 13 older rows dated separately) and 28 ranked rows on the hosted-API board, up from 8 two days before 2026-10-10. The v1.7.46 revision also changed the main board’s headline: rows now order by a Capability Score that averages Intelligence and Calibration and applies Jev-class caps (at most twice Jev’s cost and median latency on the v1.5 reference), with the four-axis composite demoted to a secondary “official” rank shown per row, so Quyet-1.0-Large leads the page at 81.7 capability and Jeff-1.0-Large (81.5) and decisio v0.8.0 on Gemma-4-31B (79.6) follow, while composite leader H2O-Lightning-4B v1.1 sits eighth by capability at 75.0 and Jev stays the unranked reference at 77.1.

Star History Chart

The Show HN thread (2026-09-22) climbed from 92 points when this note was created to 154 as of 2026-10-06, clearing the 100-point bar it originally sat under. The author has also opened a second front: an ImageJevBench v0.1.x image-modality track now lives in the repository under results/imagejevbench, with a frozen 228-public plus 456-sealed split, and its v0.1.3 candidate re-measured Imajev-4B first of 49 at 76.39 on a paid fast-serving GPU run, a separate board from the unchanged text ranking. A third front is the next text board itself: on 2026-09-29 the author published the frozen v1.5 scoring method with its disclosed addenda (an equal-axis, equal-type headline amendment over the byte-identical frozen method, pricing addenda including a DeepInfra disclosure correction, and a SHA-256 manifest), with the v1.4.2.2 board still current and no v1.5 results published yet. The v1.4 sealed-decision revision is the significant event: re-scoring against 308 decisions the entrants had not seen dropped SemIf from second (73.1) to eighth (47.7), kev-4B from 59.7 to 36.1, and Nimble from 60.5 to 18.7, while Jev held first, which is either the benchmark working as designed or evidence the public half was being selected against, depending on whose thread comment you read. The v1.4.2 point release (September 24) then added eleven new systems and completed swanOne’s sealed run, and the new #1 was not Jev: decider-4b v2 (Mapika) took the top spot at 64.13 with Jev second at 63.29, JevK5 third (62.04), Cygnet fourth (61.76), and Hopper fifth (59.43), and the new leader’s row carried its own caveats (34.7% sealed accuracy, an estimated price basis, and unaudited private stage-2 training rows). The v1.4.2.1 point release (2026-09-27) then added Plumb-4B, a JevK5 v0.2 plus LoRA rebuild by crh225, which took the top spot at 65.84 and pushed Jev to third, though Jev keeps the best intelligence (53.1) and calibration (76.3) of the new top five, and Plumb’s row leans on an estimated price basis of its own (a bookable GPU rate, not a bill). The v1.4.2.2 point release (2026-09-27, with a 2026-09-28 text-only cost-basis correction) then added Imajev-4B by mohit67890, measured on the full v1.4 protocol and priced at a public DeepInfra Qwen3.5-4B rate estimate rather than a GPU bill, which took the top spot at 67.37 and pushed Jev to fourth; the release notes also record that Laya Vision stays out of the board under a separate author-confirmation hold. The v1.6.1 boards then re-ranked nearly everyone, and the wave’s newest headline is H2O-Lightning-4B v1.1 (H2O.ai, a Qwen3.5-4B fine-tune served under stock vLLM with the author’s open shim, measured on the runner’s own RTX 5090 via GitHub add-request 181): it leads the open-weights composite at 72.5, the first open system above Jev’s unranked reference (71.5), and the 2026-10-09 board slots decisio v0.8.0 (Amin Roudaki, a Jev-compatible readout over frozen Gemma-4-31B, Apache-2.0 software) in second at 71.7, ahead of Quyet-1.0-Large (a Gemma-4-31B decoder LoRA by chinhnc) third at 71.4, torchcast-decision-12b fourth (69.9), and Winnow-12B Q8 fifth (68.9), while the v1.4.2.2-era point-release leaders stay collapsed under the new protocol (Plumb-4B twelfth at 48.3, decider-4b v2 nineteenth at 41.2, Imajev-4B at 28.7 on complete runs, all as of 2026-10-09). The board also cross-measured its rival: the maintainer’s October 7 addenda (a6 through a8) brought in the systems around the top of the Decision Index, measured on the same sealed v1.6 pool with the same scorer and cost basis, so Perplexity’s Decider v1.1, the Decision Index leader, now carries a JevBench row at 20.62 and Kev 27B one at 5.77, while decider-chat on Gemma-4-31B keeps a Jev-class 66.08, Surogate Rune 26B-A4B v3 and Xor 26B-A4B entered inside the Jev-class caps, and H2O-Lightning-4B v1.1 arrived through this route before taking the open lead (all as of 2026-10-10). On the split API leaderboard Sage 1.3.0 (Levanto Labs) ranks first, and the v1.7.46 capability re-ranking moved Jev to second on that board (77.1) ahead of Liquid AI’s d1 (74.4, carrying a current run again), SurdAI’s SPX-CD Flash (74.3), Inception’s Mercury Decide (73.6, measured 2026-10-07, served free on OpenRouter as inception/mercury-decide:free), and OpenAI’s Decisions API (73.5, also current again), with Microsoft-Decision-1 (70.8) seventh after its 2026-10-10 native Azure Foundry measurement of the full 1,500-item set (459 ms median latency, its 21 context-limit failures left in the scored denominator) and the site disclosing its base as a post-trained Qwen3.5-9B; on board revision v1.7.44 (updated 2026-10-10) the API board had grown from 8 to 27 ranked rows, adding ZooWork’s hosted Instinct (Qwen3.8-27B base operator-reported, ninth at 62.2), SurdAI’s hosted SPX-CD Flash and Pro checkpoints at 66.7 and 47.7, Vansa-3.4 (42.6, developer-reported Qwen3.5-4B base), Instinct Dual 4B (18.0), decision-machine-1 (2.4), JevAct (1.1), Fastino’s GLiNER-2.5-Decide classifier (0.3), and author-hosted demo endpoints (SimpleJev and openjev-sglang rows); the hosted rows now answer the full 1,500-item set instead of the 600-item API subset, and Liquid AI’s d1 and OpenAI’s Decisions API, which had stopped carrying current runs when that split went live, resumed them by v1.7.46. The site now also publishes chance-corrected competence across 22 item languages per system and moved ImageJevBench to v0.3.0. The author has 36 GitHub followers and no prior public footprint I could find, so I weight the methodology criticisms heavily.

Strengths
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  • The scoreboard exists, and it is replayable where it publishes: public items, frozen per-task outcomes, scoring code, and a rebuild script through v1.4.2.2, with the v1.6 boards retreating to system-level aggregate JSON plus a SHA-256, so per-task replay of the current protocol is no longer possible from the site alone.
  • The design anticipates this category’s specific tricks: chance-corrected intelligence defeats tiny-model majority-class games, calibration is scored against full distributions rather than argmax only, and cost is per decision.
  • It measured the vendors too: on the v1.2 board Jev 1.13.0 scored 74.4, GPT-5.6 Luna 65.9 with the board’s best intelligence at 95.3, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 60.1, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 57.5 with the best calibration at 96.7 and the worst cost at $0.5937 per 1,000 decisions; the v1.4 sealed revision kept Jev first at 63.3 with two new entrants, JevK5 (62.0) and Hopper (59.4), directly behind it, and the v1.4.2 through v1.4.2.2 additions then put decider-4b v2 (64.13), Plumb-4B (65.84), and Imajev-4B (67.37) at the top with Jev fourth at 63.29.
  • Combination experiments (confidence cascades, committees, best-of-n) are reported separately in RESULTS-COMBINATIONS.md, and none changed the ranked board, which is the negative result a lazy benchmark would have omitted.
  • The limitations are stated in the launch post itself: English-only, latency from one German server, a disclosed times-two adjustment for self-hosted and demo endpoints, held-out prompts still reaching evaluated services, and roughly one-point gaps being noise.

Cautions
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  • One runner built, ran, and scored everything, and the thread pushed back hard: one commenter said the results “do not seem to add up” and objected to the model set, another’s keysmash test of the slop-detector demo (86% confidence on keyboard noise) became the real finding, and a third read the site as vibecoded.
  • The v1.4 re-scoring moved almost every row at once, and the benchmark’s own explanation (sealed items catch selection against the public half) is an inference, not a measurement, so the collapse of the open replicas is provisional until someone re-runs it.
  • The times-two latency adjustment for self-hosted and demo endpoints is a disclosed assumption, not a measurement, and it moves every local row.
  • The v1.6 composite squares any axis below 50 (× (axis / 50)²), so one weak axis craters a whole system, which is why Kev 27B composites at 5.8 on this scale while ranking sixth on the Decision Index.
  • The board mixes unlike things: djev is an inference method over DiffusionGemma rather than a trained model, several rows are author demo endpoints rather than production services, and some prices are announced preview prices.
  • Small models are hypersensitive to option order on this suite too (one entrant scored 72% versus 21% on the same items with reversed options), so single-number rankings hide a real fragility.
  • Nobody independent has reproduced any of this, and the bottom-line claims shifted under the v1.4 revision, which vindicates the original caution but also means every v1.2 number quoted across this category’s notes is now a historical reading rather than the current board.

Pricing
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Free and open: MIT-licensed harness, datasets, and scoring code, no hosted service and no paid tier. The benchmark is free to run; the systems it scores bill at their own rates.

Compared to
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  • Nimble: Bespoke’s PUBLIC_BENCHMARKS.md is the other independent yardstick, 13 human-labeled subsets measured against Jev only; JevBench covers the whole category but its gold labels are model-written, not human-labeled.
  • The Jev workflow evals (evals.typesafe.ai): the vendor’s own scoreboard, which measures everything against an Astra-plus-Fable average and concedes the bias; JevBench is the outside answer to it.
  • SemIf: its RESULTS.md measures one frozen-model setup against TypeSafe’s published values; JevBench ran SemIf as an entrant and scored it second overall on the v1.2 board.

Bottom line
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Recommended as the category’s first-stop scoreboard, read with the thread open in another tab, and as the artifact to re-run if you want to check any of its rows yourself. Not as grounds for a procurement decision, and not as a refutation of Jev: Jev held first until three consecutive point releases put two LoRA stacks and an Imajev-4B fine-tune ahead of it, and a sealed-decision revision that erased most of the open replicas’ standing in one pass is a reason to demand replication, not a conclusion. The disagreeable claim I will defend: this benchmark’s most important number is not Jev’s 74.4, it is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash’s 96.7 calibration and Luna’s 95.3 intelligence, because they show the frontier models this category claims to beat are one score column away from competing, which should make everyone here uncomfortable.

Changes
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  • 2026-09-22 - Created from the entrant scan after the 2026-09-22 Show HN thread reached 92 points; accepted as category infrastructure despite the sub-100-point thread, with the author-standing gap and the thread’s methodology criticisms recorded.
  • 2026-09-25 - Recorded the v1.4.0-v1.4.2 releases (September 23-24): 308 fresh sealed decisions and a public-to-sealed gap penalty re-scored the board, Jev held first (63.3) with new entrants JevK5 and Hopper behind, SemIf fell from 73.1 to 47.7; refreshed stars (121), forks (13), pushed date (2026-09-24), and the thread (145 points, now over the bar).
  • 2026-09-26 - The v1.4.2 point release (September 24) added eleven systems and a new #1: decider-4b v2 (Mapika) 64.13, Jev second at 63.29 with the top five’s best intelligence and calibration, JevK5, Cygnet, and Hopper rounding out the five; refreshed stars (136), forks (14), pushed date (2026-09-25), and the thread (147 points); the board now holds 93 systems, 89 ranked, with a v1.4.3 roster pending.
  • 2026-09-27 - The v1.4.2.1 point release added Plumb-4B (crh225, JevK5 v0.2 plus LoRA), which took the top spot at 65.84 and pushed Jev to third at 63.29, still the top five’s best intelligence and calibration; refreshed stars (141), forks (15), pushed date (2026-09-27), and the thread (149 points); the board holds 94 systems, 90 ranked.
  • 2026-09-29 - The v1.4.2.2 point release added Imajev-4B (mohit67890, priced on a public DeepInfra Qwen3.5-4B rate estimate), which took the top spot at 67.37 and pushed Jev to fourth at 63.29, and recorded that Laya Vision stays off the board under an author-confirmation hold; refreshed stars (175), forks (18), pushed date (2026-09-28), and the thread (151 points); the board holds 95 systems, 91 ranked.
  • 2026-10-02 - Recorded the ImageJevBench v0.1.x image-modality track (frozen 228-public plus 456-sealed split; its v0.1.3 candidate re-measured Imajev-4B first of 49 at 76.39 on a paid fast-serving GPU run, a second board beside the unchanged text ranking); refreshed stars (195), forks (22), pushed date (2026-09-29), and the thread (153 points).
  • 2026-10-02 - Recorded the frozen v1.5 scoring method published 2026-09-29 (equal-axis, equal-type headline amendment, pricing addenda including a DeepInfra disclosure correction, SHA-256 manifest) with the v1.4.2.2 board still current and no v1.5 results out.
  • 2026-10-07 - Added the fstandhartinger/jevbench star history chart to the Status section.
  • 2026-10-07 - Recorded the board’s move to v1.6.1 (board revision v1.7.13, 2026-10-06): the open-weights-only main board with Jev kept as the unranked reference (71.5, a tenth above the open leader Quyet-1.0-Large), the split hosted-API leaderboard (Sage 1.3.0 first at 74.0, Liquid AI’s d1 second, Jev third, OpenAI’s Decisions API measured fifth at 62.5), the collapse of the v1.4.2.2 point-release leaders under the new protocol (Plumb-4B 48.3, decider-4b v2 41.2, Imajev-4B 28.7), the 22-language competence view, ImageJevBench v0.3.0, and the retreat to system-level aggregate publication; refreshed stars to 235.
  • 2026-10-08 - The open-weights main board moved again (board revision v1.7.18, 123 ranked systems from 102): H2O-Lightning-4B v1.1 (H2O.ai, Qwen3.5-4B fine-tune, stock vLLM plus open shim, measured on the runner’s RTX 5090) took the open composite lead at 72.5, the first open system above Jev’s 71.5 unranked reference, with Quyet-1.0-Large second (71.4); the API leaderboard re-verified unchanged (Sage 74.0, d1 73.0, Jev 71.5, wity-1 fourth, OpenAI’s Decisions API fifth); refreshed stars to 238.
  • 2026-10-09 - The boards moved again (board revision v1.7.28, 128 ranked open-weights systems from 123): decisio v0.8.0 (Amin Roudaki, a Jev-compatible readout over frozen Gemma-4-31B, Apache-2.0 software) entered the open composite second at 71.7 between the H2O-Lightning-4B lead and Quyet-1.0-Large (71.4, now third), and the API leaderboard re-ranked around Inception’s Mercury Decide (72.4, second, measured 2026-10-07, served free on OpenRouter), with SurdAI’s hosted SPX-CD Flash and Pro entering at 66.7 and 47.7 while Liquid AI’s d1 (73.0) and OpenAI’s Decisions API (62.5) stopped carrying current runs and the API board fell to 7 ranked rows; refreshed stars to 242.
  • 2026-10-10 - The boards moved to revision v1.7.31: Microsoft-Decision-1 joined the hosted API board fifth at 69.1 (a native Azure Foundry run over the full 1,500-item set, 459 ms median, 21 context-limit failures scored), decisio v0.8.0, Mercury Decide, and GLiNER 2.5 Small completed language and topic coverage supplements with headline scores unchanged, and the maintainer’s October 7 addenda (a6 through a8) cross-measured the systems around the Decision Index’s top 20 on the same sealed pool (Perplexity’s Decider v1.1 at 20.62 here against 62.75 there, Kev 27B at 5.77 against 58.78, decider-chat on Gemma-4-31B keeping 66.08); refreshed stars to 249 and the pushed date to 2026-10-09.
  • 2026-10-11 - The boards moved to revision v1.7.44 (updated 2026-10-10): the main board grew to 148 ranked open-weights systems with the open podium unchanged (H2O-Lightning-4B v1.1 72.5, decisio v0.8.0 71.7, Quyet-1.0-Large 71.4, Jev the unranked reference at 71.5), and the hosted-API board grew from 8 to 27 ranked rows (Instinct ninth at 62.2, Vansa-3.4, Instinct Dual 4B, decision-machine-1, JevAct, Fastino’s GLiNER-2.5-Decide, and SimpleJev and openjev-sglang demo endpoints joining, Jev now fourth behind Sage, d1, and Mercury Decide), with Microsoft-Decision-1’s base since disclosed as a post-trained Qwen3.5-9B; refreshed stars to 253 and the pushed date to 2026-10-10.
  • 2026-10-12 - The boards moved to revision v1.7.46 (updated 2026-10-12): the main board grew to 152 ranked open-weights systems and its headline re-based on a new Capability Score (the Intelligence-plus-Calibration average under Jev-class cost and latency caps), where Quyet-1.0-Large leads at 81.7 ahead of Jeff-1.0-Large (81.5) and decisio v0.8.0 on Gemma-4-31B (79.6), composite leader H2O-Lightning-4B v1.1 falls to eighth by capability at 75.0 while keeping official #1, and Jev stays the unranked reference at 77.1; on the API board the same capability ordering moved Jev to second behind Sage 1.3.0, with Liquid AI’s d1 (74.4) and OpenAI’s Decisions API (73.5) carrying current runs again; refreshed stars to 257.
  • 2026-10-13 - The v1.7.46 boards kept the revision and the headline ordering while three new open-weights entrants completed ranked runs (the main board now 155 ranked) and a 28th ranked row joined the hosted-API board, where Microsoft-Decision-1 now also carries a separate A2 re-run row; refreshed stars to 266 and forks to 27.

See also
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  • Jev - the closed model this benchmark ranks first on both boards, and the vendor whose antibenchmaxxing stance it answers
  • SemIf - the frozen-model readout that led the open field on the v1.2 board and fell on the sealed v1.4 revision
  • Nimble - the human-labeled alternative yardstick covering Jev and one replica
  • Hybrid Execution Feature Matrix - the category comparison this note now belongs to
  • Model Selection for Coding Tasks - where the decision layer you would benchmark this way gets chosen

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