Baseten’s joey-1 makes AI decisions for a penny per million tokens

Baseten launched joey-1, a 2-billion-parameter open-weight AI decision model that outputs answers with probabilities instead of text, costing $0.01 per million tokens and responding in about 20ms. Joey-1 is designed for tasks like ticket routing and spam detection, offering faster and cheaper performance than Baseten's larger models. Built on Alibaba's Qwen3.5-2B and trained on over 6 million decision examples, joey-1 ranks highly on the Jev Decision Index for models under 4B parameters.