AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 vs ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF

AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 comes out ahead on the data we track: 2 advantages and none for ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF.

Key numbers

SpecAI21: Jamba Large 1.7ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF
ProviderAI21Hugging Face
Input price (per 1M tokens)$2.00n/a
Output price (per 1M tokens)$8.00n/a
Blended price (3:1 input/output)$3.50n/a
Cheaper than … of all models we track18%n/a
Context window256K tokens (~384 pages)n/a
Larger context than … of all models45%n/a
Max output per response4K tokens (~3,100 words)n/a
Input typestexttext
Output typestexttext
Free variantNoNo
Listed since2025-08-08n/a
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What it costs for real workloads

Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.

Workload (per month)AI21: Jamba Large 1.7ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUFDifference
Customer-support chatbot
50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens)
$310n/a—
RAG search over documents
20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens)
$320n/a—
Coding / tool-using agent
2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens)
$336n/a—
Batch summarisation
10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens)
$208n/a—
Long-document analysis
500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens)
$108n/a—

Capabilities side by side

CapabilityAI21: Jamba Large 1.7ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUFWhat it lets you do
Tool / function calling✓ Yes—call your APIs and run agent loops
Structured output (JSON schema)✓ Yes—return JSON that validates against your schema
Reasoning / thinking mode——spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems
Image input——read screenshots, charts and scanned pages
Audio input——take speech or audio directly
File / PDF input——accept documents without your own parsing step
Image output——generate images, not just text
Built-in web search——answer from live web results
Seed (reproducible sampling)——repeat a generation for tests and evals
Log-probabilities——read token confidence for classification and scoring

From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.

Price history

Which should you choose?

Choose AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 if…

  • you need tool / function calling — to call your APIs and run agent loops; ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF does not advertise it
  • you need structured output (JSON schema) — to return JSON that validates against your schema; ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF does not advertise it

Choose ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF if…

No advantage on the data we track — pick it for provider preference or output quality on your own prompts.

Frequently asked questions

Is AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 better than ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF?

AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 comes out ahead on the data we track: 2 advantages and none for ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF.

Do AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF support function calling and JSON output?

Tool calling — AI21: Jamba Large 1.7: yes, ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF: not advertised. JSON-schema structured output — AI21: Jamba Large 1.7: yes, ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF: not advertised.

Can AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 or ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF read images?

Neither accepts image input — both are text-in models.

Is AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 or ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF free to use?

No free variant is listed for either; both are pay-per-token.

About the two models

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