# Laya vs Decider (slim)

> Decider and Laya score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 69.5 (B) and 69.2 (B). Laya 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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Decider and Laya score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 69.5 (B) and 69.2 (B). Laya leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do inference decision.

- Laya: B 69.2, rank #183 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convai-laya.min.md
- Decider: B 69.5, rank #172 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decider.min.md
- Laya, good for Fast, cheap classification and routing on short text in many languages, as a base to fine-tune on your own labels, and as an MCP or LangGraph routing step. Ahead on Security & auth, 57 against 38; Transparency & trust, 62 against 46. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Decider, good for Local classification, routing, triage and checks where a team wants open weights in several sizes and a Jev-shaped route. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 65.

| Category | Laya | Decider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 38 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 46 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Laya | Decider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Convai Innovations | Mark Marosi (Mapika) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 (code and weights) |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-07 |
| Popularity | 29k stars | 1.1k stars, 2.7k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |