By now you've probably seen Jev on your timeline.

Benchmarked Jev against GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1, and Deepseek v4.1 Flash on four tasks including 1,500 emails and 857 support tickets, spending $0.49 total.

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By now you've probably seen Jev on your timeline.

Yes, it's an insanely fast & cheap model.

But how does it compare against GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1, and Deepseek v4.1 Flash?

In this video I compare it against top LLMs on 4 distinct tasks. Did it win? Or did it lose? Let's find out.

Total Jev bill for everything in this video: $0.49.

Chapters

0:00 Intro

1:07 What Jev actually is

2:57 System 1 vs System 2 thinking

4:36 Jev plays Doom

7:14 How Jev works

10:33 Trading Bitcoin for a year

14:26 1,500 emails at 200 ms each

17:58 857 support tickets vs Intercom Fin

20:06 When you should actually use it

Engagement when collected

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