# Clef vs Vela 2.0 (slim)

> Vela 2.0 and Clef score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 66.5 (B) and 66.1 (B). Clef leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Vela 2.0 and Clef score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 66.5 (B) and 66.1 (B). Clef leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do inference decision.

- Clef: B 66.1, rank #224 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-clef.min.md
- Vela 2.0: B 66.5, rank #219 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vela.min.md
- Clef, good for Classification, routing and rubric scoring over text, JSON and images inside Cloudflare, or self-hosted where data can't leave. Ahead on Security & auth, 69 against 60; Transparency & trust, 86 against 48. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- Vela 2.0, good for Self-hosted routing and guardrail checks in one call, where span offsets for personal data or unsupported claims matter. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Maintenance & community, 84 against 56. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Clef | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 61 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 75 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 69 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 86 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Clef | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cloudflare | vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clef` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (weights and scoring code, following the Qwen base models). Training code and data aren't published | Apache-2.0 (weights, code and documentation). The 0.3B's tokeniser keeps the Gemma Terms of Use, and training data keeps its own licences |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| 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 | 6.1k stars |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |