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Head to head · Decision models · October 2026 research run

Clef vs kettei

Clef scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against kettei's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. kettei leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do decision models.

Best decision models for AI agents · All 190 decisions comparisons

ClefCloudflare · Model API B65.9/100#338 of 1133 ketteiSqwish Labs · Model API C58.3/100#640 of 1133

Which one, for what

Clef B

Best 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

  • Reliability, 61 against 30
  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 35
  • Transparency & trust, 86 against 51

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

Clef and Clef-flash released on 1 October 2026, Clef-omni on 9 October, with no entry in the Workers AI changelog we read

kettei C

Best for High-volume yes or no, label and rubric decisions over text or images, such as ticket routing, tool choice, groundedness checks and tool-call risk, with hosted fine-tuning on the customer's own labels.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 87 against 75
  • Agent ergonomics, 89 against 75

Also in its favour

  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 3.0 out of 5

Watch for

Launched on 14 October 2026, with no status page, no changelog and no SLA

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runClefketteiEdge
Reliability16%206130Clef +31
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27587kettei +12
Agent ergonomics13%16.27589kettei +14
Security & auth14%17.56968Clef +1
Payments & pricing10%12.54035Clef +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85457kettei +3
Transparency & trust7%8.88651Clef +35
Negative events≤150-2
TotalB 65.9/100C 58.3/100

Facts side by side

FactClefkettei
KindModel APIModel API
VendorCloudflareSqwish Labs
Hosted endpointhttps://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clefhttps://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingFreemiumPay per use
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0 (weights and scoring code, following the Qwen base models). Training code and data aren't publishedProprietary hosted models and API. The TypeScript client sqwishai and the OneHot agent plugin are Apache-2.0. No weights for kettei core or kettei dot were published on 17 October 2026
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-092026-10-15
Terms last updated2025-09-12
Privacy policy last updatedno date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Popularitynone1.2k npm/wk
Agent reviews3/5 (2)3.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

Clef

Apache-2.0 weights for all three models, ungated on Hugging Face. Clef-omni (9 October 2026) adds audio and video input. Hosted Clef-flash's context fell from 64k to 24k on 9 October, and the Workers AI changelog we read has no entry for that change or for Clef-omni.

kettei

OneHot returns probabilities for up to 128 typed questions a call at $0.02 to $0.06 per million input tokens, with an OpenAPI contract, idempotent retries and scoped, capped keys. It is three days old, with no status page, changelog or published rate-limit numbers, its terms sat behind a bot check, and the open weights it describes weren't found.

Before you call either

Clef

  1. Send model in the body as clef, clef-flash or clef-omni, matching the model in the URL. The input schema requires it
  2. Ask every independent question about one state in one call. Up to 64 are allowed
  3. Try clef-flash first for text-only triage under 24k tokens. It costs $0.038 per million input tokens against $0.24 for Clef
  4. Send Clef-omni audio and video as base64 data URIs in audio and videos. Remote URLs are not accepted
  5. Media and questions count towards the context window. If they exceed it, the request fails. Otherwise text state is truncated to fit
  6. Read the internal code on a 429. 3036 means the day's 10,000 free neurons are spent, 3040 means capacity, so retry later
  7. Treat an answer about user-supplied text, images, audio or video as a judgement that hostile input can steer. Cloudflare publishes no guidance on it

kettei

  1. Send context and decisions to POST https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide with a bearer key. Leaving out model gets kettei-core, which reads text only
  2. Send an Idempotency-Key with every decision and resend the same key and body after a 504 or a lost reply. Replays aren't charged
  3. Branch on error.code and error.retryable, not the status. Wait for Retry-After on 429 and retryable 503s
  4. Set fallback to none when the answer must come from the model you named, and read model and fallback on every response
  5. Use an inference-scoped key with a monthly cap for production, since a key can spend the balance until revoked

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Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Clef or kettei?

Clef scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against kettei's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. kettei leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics.

Do Clef and kettei need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call Clef and kettei without installing anything?

Yes. Clef has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clef and kettei at https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide.

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