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LLM Judges for Identity Resolution at 4x Lower Cost
Hightouch blog write-up testing whether fast decision models Jev and GPT-6 Luna can grade identity resolution as well as frontier LLMs. Reports out-of-the-box accuracy, calibration differences, and a hybrid Jev plus Opus harness that reaches frontier accuracy at over 4x lower cost.
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- Both decision models scored 88.8-97.3% accuracy out of the box on the identity resolution grading task.
- A hybrid harness pairing Jev with Claude Opus reaches frontier accuracy at more than 4x lower cost.
- Jev's confidence is described as better calibrated: most of its mistakes come with low confidence, while most of Luna's come with high confidence.
- Decision models are reported as up to 90x cheaper and over 10x faster, at roughly $0.5-$0.10 per 1,000 identities and about 0.15 seconds per answer.
- Frontier models remain more accurate, with decision models trailing Opus by about 6 percentage points on harder benchmarks.
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Whether fast, cheap decision models such as Jev and GPT-6 Luna can grade identity resolution results as well as frontier LLMs, and whether a hybrid setup can close the accuracy gap at lower cost.
Both models performed acceptably out of the box, landing between 88.8% and 97.3% accuracy. Luna performed better than Jev out of the box, but the gap disappeared on harder cases.
Jev makes the decision and can ask Claude Opus for help when needed. The write-up reports that this pairing gets close to Opus-level accuracy while costing more than 4x less than using the frontier model alone.
The post reports decision models as up to 90x cheaper and more than 10x faster out of the box, at roughly $0.5-$0.10 per 1,000 identities and about 0.15 seconds per answer.
Most of Jev's mistakes come with low confidence, while most of Luna's mistakes come with high confidence. That difference lets a harness route low-confidence Jev decisions to a stronger model instead of trusting every answer equally.
It was written by Albert Jin, Neil Desai, and Delaney Mackenzie for the Hightouch blog and published on November 4, 2026, under the data and technology teams section.
Frontier models remain more accurate than decision models, which trail Opus by about 6 percentage points on harder benchmarks. The post also examines whether the test set captures enough complex cases and how a confidence threshold is chosen.
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