Jamba Large 1.7 is the latest model in the Jamba open family, offering improvements in grounding, instruction-following, and overall efficiency. Built on a hybrid SSM-Transformer architecture with a 256K context window, it delivers more acc…
Model details →AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 wins on 5 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
The Qwen3.5 native vision-language series Plus models are built on a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms with sparse mixture-of-experts models, achieving higher inference efficiency. In a variety of task evaluati…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 | Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 256K | 1M | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $2.00 | $0.26 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $8.00 | $1.56 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | Yes | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | Yes | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 |
Frequently asked questions
Is AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 better than Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15?
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 wins on 5 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15?
Input: $2.00 vs $0.26 per 1M tokens. Output: $8.00 vs $1.56 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 support?
AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 supports up to 256K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 supports up to 1M tokens.
Do both AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 support tool calling?
AI21: Jamba Large 1.7: yes. Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15: yes.