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Jamba2 Mini

Jamba2 Mini is an open-source model in AI21 Labs’ Jamba2 family, released on January 8, 2026 alongside Jamba2 3B. It is built on the SSM-Transformer architecture and aimed at grounded, steerable enterprise question answering without the overhead of a reasoning model.

Released

January 8, 2026

Type

llm

License

open-weight

Apache 2.0

Context

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The developer states a context window of “256K” tokens.

Pricing

Input

$0.20 / 1M tokens

Output

$0.40 / 1M tokens

List price on the developer's own pages, checked . Listed as “Jamba Mini” on AI21’s pricing page; AI21’s docs say the jamba-mini API alias points to jamba-mini-2-2026-01 (Jamba2 Mini).

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Capabilities

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Architecture

Parameters: 52B total, 12B active (Mixture of Experts)

Sources

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