Kev 4B is a small open-weight decision model from Jared Palmer, built as a LoRA adapter and pointer head on Qwen3.5-4B-Base and served over the same /v1/systemone contract as TypeSafe's Jev. Send a state and typed questions (yes/no, multiple choice, or score) and it returns a calibrated probability per question in one forward pass, with no generated text. It is the recommended checkpoint in the Kev family (0.8B, 4B, 9B) and is suited for routing, classification, and policy checks that want a compact, Apache-2.0 alternative to Jev.
Code, model cards, and eval suites: https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kevOpens in new tab
Modalities
In / Out Price
$0.042 / $0per 1M
Context
8K
Released
Sep 25, 2026
This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.
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Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
Drop-in code to call this model. It runs on the OpenRouter Decisions API rather than the OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint, so the request and response shapes below are specific to structured decisions — chat completions SDKs will not work with it.
| $0.042 | Free | 0.75s |
Latency
0.75s
P50, best provider
97.85%
94.28%
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Kev 4B is a small open-weight decision model from Jared Palmer, built as a LoRA adapter and pointer head on Qwen3.5-4B-Base and served over the same /v1/systemone contract as TypeSafe's Jev. Send a state and typed questions (yes/no, multiple choice, or score) and it returns a calibrated probability per question in one forward pass, with no generated text.
Kev 4B costs $0.042/M input tokens and $0.00/M output tokens.
Kev 4B has a 8,192 token context window.
Kev 4B accepts text as input and returns structured decisions.
Kev 4B was released on September 25, 2026.