Side-by-side comparison of Jamba 1.5 Large (AI21 Labs · Israel) and Phi-4 (Microsoft · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Jamba 1.5 Large is rated conditional; Phi-4 is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Jamba 1.5 Large is "Jamba Open", Phi-4 is "MIT".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 MIT-licensed 14B from Microsoft Research. Heavy use of synthetic training data is disclosed; English-primary (thin multilingual coverage). Strongest small-model option for permissive-licence EU deployments. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Jamba Open | MIT |
| Commercial use | Under $50M rev. | Yes |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Partial |
| Origin | Israel | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 11/100 | 10/100 |
| Speed | — | 29 tok/s |
| Blended price | $3.50/M | $0.22/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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