# Laya vs Liquid d1 (slim)

> Laya scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against Liquid d1's 43.5 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Laya scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against Liquid d1's 43.5 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do inference decision.

- Laya: B 69.2, rank #153 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convai-laya.min.md
- Liquid d1: E 43.5, rank #582 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liquid-d1.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 Reliability, 65 against 21; Schema & documentation, 80 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 63; Security & auth, 57 against 35; Payments & pricing, 60 against 27; Maintenance & community, 83 against 60; Transparency & trust, 62 against 54. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Liquid d1, good for Classification, routing, yes or no gates and rubric scoring over text and images at a low per-token price, or on your own hardware with d1-3B where data can't leave. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Laya | Liquid d1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 21 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 35 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 27 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Laya | Liquid d1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Convai Innovations | Liquid AI |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.liquid.ai/decisions/v1/systemone` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | The hosted d1 model is proprietary under Liquid AI's terms of service. The d1-3B and d1-omni-600M weights and model code are under the LFM Open Licence v1.0, which is based on Apache-2.0 and conditions commercial use on annual revenue under $10 million. Training code and data aren't published |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-30 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 29k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |