diff --git a/ivy/functional/backends/jax/activations.py b/ivy/functional/backends/jax/activations.py
index 08f4f42c88ebf..cdb9340436cf6 100644
--- a/ivy/functional/backends/jax/activations.py
+++ b/ivy/functional/backends/jax/activations.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def leaky_relu(
 def relu(
     x: JaxArray, /, *, complex_mode="jax", out: Optional[JaxArray] = None
 ) -> JaxArray:
-    return jnp.maximum(x, 0)
+    return jax.nn.relu(x)
 
 
 def sigmoid(