Cloudflare launches open-weight Clef models to take on Jev

Cloudflare released two decision models, Clef and Clef-flash, built on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B. They handle text, images and video, support a 64k context window and are API-compatible with Jev. Pricing is $0.24 per million tokens, with open weights on Hugging Face.

• Clef and Clef-flash use Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B backbones
• Support images and video with a 64k context window
• Priced at $0.24 per million tokens, six times Jev's rate
• Local runs need 85 GB and 41 GB of VRAM respectively