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Jamba SSM model. 10k req/month free.

LLMest. 2017 · Tel Aviv, Israel
93
/ 100 APIVault Score

// At a glance

Free Tier
10k req/month · 5 req/min · no card
Category
LLM
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago

// Free tier details

Available Models

Jamba 1.6 LargeJamba 1.6 Mini

Monthly Requests

10,000 requests/month

Rate Limit

5 requests/minute

No credit card needed
No phone verification

// Quick start

300">"text-purple-400">from ai21 300">"text-purple-400">import AI21Client

client = AI21Client(api_key=300">"YOUR_AI21_KEY")

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=300">"jamba-1.6-mini",
    messages=[{300">"role": 300">"user", 300">"content": 300">"Hello."}],
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

// Overview

AI21's Jamba hybrid SSM-Transformer offers long context at a fraction of typical costs. Free trial API gives access to Jamba models and text segmentation tools.

// Pros

  • Jamba SSM is fast and cheap
  • Long context window
  • Good docs

// Cons

  • Stricter rate limits on free tier
  • Smaller community

// Score breakdown

Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)100/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)84/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)76/100

Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology

// Best for

Long-document processingCost-sensitive enterpriseClassification

// Recent changes

Mar 1, 2026Jamba 1.6 Large releasedadded