Jev Is Built for Tinkerers

Author here, and I'll declare my bias so I'm upfront. I am co-founder of Ably, a realtime infrastructure company, so I wanted Jev to be a low-latency story.

Two weeks ago I built Jev Pong and thought it was.

Then I tried to find a use our customers would ship and couldn't, so I sorted the whole first week of Jev posts instead of guessing. The data is on a separate page linked from the piece (see https://mattheworiordan.github.io/jev-landscape/ and https://github.com/mattheworiordan/jev-landscape/, which scanned ~6k posts and looked at the data from two public gateways and twenty rapidly emerging rivals).

The short version. Adoption is very real (a quarter of Vercel's AI Gateway requests, 2% of its tokens), but the 100x claim is against frontier models. In practie, Jev is more like 7x and 5x against small models you'd have likely used.

So my conclusion is Jev is a great model, unblocks things you could not do before when you're in builder mode, but when you move into production and definitely do things at scale, you're unlikely to be on Jev. We have solutions already for the things Jev does, just with some friction.