How to get access to Jev is suddenly a moving target: TypeSafe’s decision model launched behind a waitlist, picked up third-party routes within days, and — as of today, 25 September 2026 — just lost the biggest free door it had. I’ve been publishing on every access route as it opened (the video above covers the free ones), so this page is the consolidated answer: five ways in that work right now, what each costs, which one fits your build, and the honest state of the free options now the Vercel window has closed.
Key takeaways
- Five working routes today: the browser playground (no signup), OpenRouter’s beta listing, OpenCode Zen’s jev-1.13 route, TypeSafe’s official waitlist for direct API access, and apps built on Jev — where you use it without holding a key at all.
- The Vercel AI Gateway free window ended today, 25 September 2026 — guides still promising unlimited free Jev through it are now out of date.
- Cheapest metered route: ~$0.042 per million input tokens with output free on the OpenRouter beta — decision workloads cost cents.
- Versions matter: routes currently serve jev-1.12 or jev-1.13 — check which yours pins before comparing results.
How to get access to Jev today: the five working routes
Jev isn’t like getting access to a chat model — there’s no consumer app to download. It’s a decision engine you reach through an interface someone else built or an API key you wire yourself (the full API walkthrough is in my Jev API guide). Here’s the current map:
| Route | What you get | Cost / catch |
|---|---|---|
| jevplayground.com | Browser playground, no signup — type questions, see probabilities | Free; third-party, so treat it as a demo, not infrastructure |
| OpenRouter (beta) | Jev alongside every other model on one key | ~$0.042/M input tokens, output free; beta label means occasional rough edges |
| OpenCode Zen | A jev-1.13 route inside the OpenCode ecosystem | Newest pinned version I’ve seen served; check their current terms |
| TypeSafe waitlist | Direct first-party API access | Free to join; timing is TypeSafe’s call — this is the canonical long-term route |
| Apps built on Jev | Tools like treg’s GTM demos where Jev does the deciding inside someone else’s product | You never touch a key — access without access; see my Jev Treg breakdown |
Notable plumbing detail: treg’s integration page notes Jev is served through the Vercel AI Gateway on their stack — the gateway remains a paid serving route for builders even though its free promotional window is over.
How to get access to Jev for free after the window
Dated fact, 25 September 2026: the Vercel AI Gateway’s free Jev window — the “use Jev free with no card” route my free-access guide and free API page tracked — ended today. Anything still promising unlimited free Jev through Vercel is stale. I keep those pages updated as new promos appear.
What’s still genuinely free: the playground costs nothing and answers instantly — for learning how choice, score and yes/no questions behave, it’s all you need. And the OpenRouter beta’s pricing shape — input metered at about 4 cents per million tokens, output free — means “not technically free” works out to pennies for real workloads: ten thousand decisions at a thousand tokens of context each is roughly 42 cents. The era of needing a budget to experiment never really applied here; what ended today is only the zero-card, zero-account door.
If your plan was “free forever via the gateway,” the honest replacement is: playground to learn, OpenRouter cents to build, waitlist for the first-party key. Full current pricing maths lives in the Jev pricing guide.
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Which route fits which build
- Just evaluating? Playground. Five minutes tells you whether your use case is a choice, a score or a yes/no — and whether Jev’s speed changes what you’d build.
- Shipping an agent this week? OpenRouter beta — one key you likely already have, sane pricing, easy fallback to other models on the same account. My agent wiring guide assumes this route.
- Chasing the newest version? OpenCode Zen’s jev-1.13 pin — version drift is real (TypeSafe’s own cookbook examples cite jev-1.12), so pin deliberately and re-test when you move.
- Building for the long term? Join the waitlist regardless — first-party access is where rate limits, SLAs and the newest checkpoints will live first.
- Don’t want to build at all? Use products with Jev inside — the treg GTM pipelines are the best worked example, with public runs and per-step receipts.
One constraint to plan around whichever door you pick: Jev reads about 30K tokens of state per question — past that it over-limits — so big jobs get chunked or summarised regardless of route. That’s a design property, not a route limitation.
The bottom line on how to get access to Jev
How to get access to Jev, in one paragraph: play with it free in the browser today, wire it through OpenRouter for cents when you’re ready to build, consider OpenCode Zen if you want jev-1.13, join TypeSafe’s waitlist for the first-party key that eventually matters most — and remember the free Vercel window closed on 25 September 2026, so distrust any guide that hasn’t noticed. Access was never the hard part with Jev; knowing what to ask it is, and that’s what the rest of my cluster covers.
FAQ: how to get access to jev
How do I get access to Jev right now?
Five routes work today: the free browser playground (jevplayground.com, no signup), OpenRouter’s beta listing, OpenCode Zen’s jev-1.13 route, TypeSafe’s official API waitlist, and using apps with Jev built in — like treg’s GTM tools.
Is Jev still free to use?
The playground is free with no signup. The big zero-card route — the Vercel AI Gateway free window — ended 25 September 2026. OpenRouter’s beta meters input at about $0.042 per million tokens with output free, so real workloads still cost only cents.
What happened to the free Vercel Jev access?
That promotional window closed on 25 September 2026. Vercel’s AI Gateway remains a serving route — treg’s stack serves Jev through it — but the free-with-no-card period is over.
Do I need the waitlist if OpenRouter already serves Jev?
For building today, no — OpenRouter works now. The waitlist is for first-party API access, which is where the newest versions, higher limits and production guarantees will land first, so join it anyway; it costs nothing.
Which Jev version will I get?
Depends on the route: OpenCode Zen pins jev-1.13, while TypeSafe’s published cookbook examples cite jev-1.12. Behaviour can shift between versions, so note your pin and re-test thresholds when it changes.
Can I use Jev without any API key?
Yes — the playground for experiments, or products with Jev embedded, like the treg GTM pipelines, where the app holds the key and you just get the decisions.
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Last updated September 2026. This page is a living guide to how to get access to jev — the facts here move fast and I update it as they do.