Side-by-side comparison of Jamba 1.5 Large (AI21 Labs · Israel) and Mistral Nemo (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Jamba 1.5 Large is rated conditional; Mistral Nemo is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Jamba 1.5 Large is "Jamba Open", Mistral Nemo is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional SSM-Transformer hybrid (Mamba) with 256K context. Jamba Open Model License permits commercial use below $50M annual revenue; above that, paid licence required. Israel jurisdiction; EU adequacy decision in place. | EU-ready A 12B model from Paris-based Mistral AI, co-trained with NVIDIA and shipped under Apache 2.0 with a 128k context window and strong coverage of major EU languages. EU-headquartered vendor plus a fully permissive licence make this one of the cleanest open-weight choices for organisations prioritising AI Act and GDPR alignment, with the main caveat being the usual lack of detail on the training corpus. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-05-19 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Jamba Open | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Under $50M rev. | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed corpus |
| Origin | Israel | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 11/100 | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Blended price | $3.50/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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