Jais 30B
Jais 30B is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Workloads that can use a 2k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Jais
- Released
- 2023-10-13
- Context
- 2k
- Parameters
- 30B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 1 route · Microsoft Foundry
About
The Jais 30B is a leading bilingual large language model developed by Core42 and Cerebras Systems, designed for both Arabic and English. Featuring 30 billion parameters, it leverages a transformer-based decoder-only architecture, offering enhanced performance with SwiGLU non-linearity and ALiBi position embeddings. This model excels in text generation, conversational AI, summarization, and translation, capable of handling lengthy contexts with up to 8,192 tokens. Trained on an extensive dataset of 126 billion Arabic tokens, 251 billion English tokens, and 50 billion code tokens, Jais 30B is open-source under the Apache 2.0 license, facilitating community collaboration. Despite its capabilities, it may exhibit biases and is recommended to be used with human oversight.
Jais 30B is an open-source model in the Jais family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Microsoft Foundry, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $3.2 input and $9.71 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Jais 30B yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry | $3.20 | $9.71 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(5)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Jais 30B?
Jais 30B has a context window of 2k tokens.
How much does Jais 30B cost?
Jais 30B is available at $3.2/1M input tokens through Microsoft Foundry.
When was Jais 30B released?
Jais 30B was released on 2023-10-13.
Which providers offer Jais 30B?
Jais 30B is available from 1 provider: Microsoft Foundry.
Cheapest of 1 route · Microsoft Foundry