# Clef vs Drex 1.5 (slim)

> Drex 1.5 scores 69.7 (B) to Clef's 65.9 (B) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Drex 1.5 scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Clef's 65.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Clef leads on transparency & trust. Both do decision models.

- Clef: B 65.9, rank #307 of 954 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-clef.min.md
- Drex 1.5: B 69.7, rank #172 of 954 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nace-drex.min.md
- Clef, good for Classification, routing and rubric scoring over text, JSON and images inside Cloudflare, with audio and video through Clef-omni, or self-hosted where data can't leave. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 86 against 63. Also Free to start without a card.
- Drex 1.5, good for Routing, triage and yes or no gates inside an agent, where the caller supplies the options and acts on the probabilities. Suited to hosted use at a low per-token price, or to open weights where the licence fits. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 61; Schema & documentation, 88 against 75; Agent ergonomics, 85 against 75; Maintenance & community, 65 against 54.

| Category | Clef | Drex 1.5 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 61 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 75 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 85 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 69 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 54 | 65 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 86 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Clef | Drex 1.5 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cloudflare | Nace AI, Inc. (Nace.AI) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clef` | `https://console.nace.ai/v1/systemone` |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (weights and scoring code, following the Qwen base models). Training code and data aren't published | Hosted API under the Nace AI Terms of Service, last updated 5 May 2026. Weights under the Nace AI Open RAIL-M licence (modified, version 1.0, October 2026), which is not an open-source licence. Businesses above $1 million in revenue or funding need a separate commercial licence, and competing products are excluded. The bundled code/kev package, derived from Jared Palmer's Kev (https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kev), and the GitHub repository are Apache-2.0, and the agent skill is MIT. |
| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-09-28 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | none | 318 npm/wk, 156 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |