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Laya is software you run, and its server has no payment route (checked 2026-10-02).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": 29200, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-02" }, "docsUrl": "https://nandhakishorm.github.io/laya/", "capabilities": [ "inference.decision" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-source", "open-weights", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "python", "mcp", "batch", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 163, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 60, "reliability": 65, "schema": 80, "security": 57, "transparency": 62 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Apache-2.0 code and weights, installed with `pip install laya`, with Python 3.10 to 3.13 tested in CI. 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The Apache-2.0 licence stands in for terms." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convai-laya.json", "live": { "slug": "convai-laya", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "NandhaKishorM/laya", "version": "v0.4.0", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:06:59.058927231Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "laya", "version": "0.4.0", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:06:58.941467636Z" } ], "githubStars": 31667, "pypiWeekly": 77372, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://convaiinnovations.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:09.474636066Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "convaiinnovations.com", "registered": "2021-09-01", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/convaiinnovations.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:27.291006176Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T16:06:59.058927231Z" } }, "answer": "OpenAI Decisions API scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Laya's 69.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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The rate-limits guide lists a Free tier capped at $100 a month, but GPT-6 Luna's limits start at the Build tier, reached with $5 of credit (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/rate-limits).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Decisions guide, the API reference or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 31774, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/decisions", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.openai.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://github.com/openai/openai-openapi", "capabilities": [ "inference.decision" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "closed-source", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "go", "java", "usage-priced", "status-page", "beta" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.5, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 107, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 87, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 30, "reliability": 53, "schema": 89, "security": 83, "transparency": 83 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Typed predicate, choice and score answers with probabilities, up to 200 questions a call, at $0.10 per million input tokens with no output charge. 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Laya leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Laya or OpenAI Decisions API?" }, { "answer": "Laya, at free against $0.10 per 1M tokens for OpenAI Decisions API. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for inference decision, Laya or OpenAI Decisions API?" }, { "answer": "Laya needs no key. OpenAI Decisions API needs an API key.", "question": "Do Laya and OpenAI Decisions API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Laya runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. OpenAI Decisions API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.openai.com/v1/decisions.", "question": "Can an agent call Laya and OpenAI Decisions API without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Laya is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for OpenAI Decisions API.", "question": "Are Laya and OpenAI Decisions API open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 65 against 53", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 77" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Runs on your own machine", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "convai-laya", "watchFor": "Base checkpoints score 0.362 and 0.352 on the maintainers' typed-decisions benchmark against a 0.318 random baseline, so it needs fine-tuning" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 80", "Agent ergonomics, 87 against 80", "Security \u0026 auth, 83 against 57", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 62" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "High-volume yes or no checks, routing among fixed options and rubric scoring over text and images, for teams already on an OpenAI key.", "slug": "openai-decisions-api", "watchFor": "Public beta released on 6 October 2026. The guide expects general availability in the coming weeks and gives no date" } ], "job": { "capability": "inference.decision", "name": "Inference decision" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-clef-vs-convai-laya.json", "title": "Clef vs Laya", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-clef-vs-convai-laya" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-clef-vs-openai-decisions-api.json", "title": "Clef vs OpenAI Decisions API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-clef-vs-openai-decisions-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-jaredpalmer-kev.json", "title": "Laya vs Kev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-jaredpalmer-kev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-liquid-d1.json", "title": "Laya vs Liquid d1", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-liquid-d1" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-strands-decider.json", "title": "Laya vs Strands Decider 2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-strands-decider" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-typesafe-jev.json", "title": "Laya vs Jev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-typesafe-jev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-vela.json", "title": "Laya vs Vela 2.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-vela" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jaredpalmer-kev-vs-openai-decisions-api.json", "title": "Kev vs OpenAI Decisions API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jaredpalmer-kev-vs-openai-decisions-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liquid-d1-vs-openai-decisions-api.json", "title": "Liquid d1 vs OpenAI Decisions API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liquid-d1-vs-openai-decisions-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-decisions-api-vs-strands-decider.json", "title": "OpenAI Decisions API vs Strands Decider 2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-decisions-api-vs-strands-decider" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-decisions-api-vs-typesafe-jev.json", "title": "OpenAI Decisions API vs Jev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-decisions-api-vs-typesafe-jev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-decisions-api-vs-vela.json", "title": "OpenAI Decisions API vs Vela 2.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-decisions-api-vs-vela" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 12, "convai-laya": 65, "edge": "convai-laya", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "openai-decisions-api": 53, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "convai-laya": 80, "edge": "openai-decisions-api", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "openai-decisions-api": 89, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 7, "convai-laya": 80, "edge": "openai-decisions-api", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "openai-decisions-api": 87, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 26, "convai-laya": 57, "edge": "openai-decisions-api", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "openai-decisions-api": 83, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 30, "convai-laya": 60, "edge": "convai-laya", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "openai-decisions-api": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 6, "convai-laya": 83, "edge": "convai-laya", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "openai-decisions-api": 77, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 21, "convai-laya": 62, "edge": "openai-decisions-api", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "openai-decisions-api": 83, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "OpenAI Decisions API scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Laya's 69.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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It is a public beta released on 6 October 2026, with one model alias, no dated snapshot, no Batch route and no SLA found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-openai-decisions-api", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-openai-decisions-api.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-openai-decisions-api.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-openai-decisions-api.min.md" }, "markdown": "OpenAI Decisions API scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Laya's 69.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Laya leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do inference decision.\n\n- Laya: grade B, 69.2/100, rank #163 of 722. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-decisions-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-decisions-api.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Laya (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 53\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 77\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Base checkpoints score 0.362 and 0.352 on the maintainers' typed-decisions benchmark against a 0.318 random baseline, so it needs fine-tuning\n\n### OpenAI Decisions API (BB)\n\nGood for: High-volume yes or no checks, routing among fixed options and rubric scoring over text and images, for teams already on an OpenAI key.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 80\n- Agent ergonomics, 87 against 80\n- Security \u0026 auth, 83 against 57\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 83 against 62\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Public beta released on 6 October 2026. The guide expects general availability in the coming weeks and gives no date\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Laya | OpenAI Decisions API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 53 | Laya +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 89 | OpenAI Decisions API +9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 87 | OpenAI Decisions API +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 83 | OpenAI Decisions API +26 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Laya +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 77 | Laya +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 83 | OpenAI Decisions API +21 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.2 · B** | **71.5 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Laya | OpenAI Decisions API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Convai Innovations | OpenAI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.openai.com/v1/decisions` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |\n| Price for inference decision | free | $0.10 per 1M tokens |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under OpenAI's services agreement. The official SDKs are Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 8 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 29k stars | 32k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Laya.** Apache-2.0 code and weights, installed with `pip install laya`, with Python 3.10 to 3.13 tested in CI. Base checkpoints score 0.362 and 0.352 on the maintainers' typed-decisions benchmark against a 0.318 random baseline, so it needs fine-tuning.\n\n**OpenAI Decisions API.** Typed predicate, choice and score answers with probabilities, up to 200 questions a call, at $0.10 per million input tokens with no output charge. It is a public beta released on 6 October 2026, with one model alias, no dated snapshot, no Batch route and no SLA found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Laya\n\n1. Set `LAYA_API_KEY` before starting `laya-serve`. It listens on every interface by default\n2. Gate on `answer_confidence`, not `confidence`, which measures entropy and doesn't match Jev's field\n3. Shortlist choice questions with more than about 20 options using `predict_shortlist` or the `laya_shortlist` tool\n4. Use semantic or opaque labels such as `A` and `B`, not `yes` and `no`, in choice questions. The checkpoints can follow the label text\n5. Pass `model=\"multilingual\"` and `max_len=8192` for long documents. The English checkpoint stops at 512 tokens\n\n### OpenAI Decisions API\n\n1. Put independent questions about one input in a single `questions` array. Send a separate request when a question depends on an earlier answer\n2. Check each answer's `type` before reading it. A question can come back as `refusal` while the others in the same request are answered\n3. Encode images as base64 data URLs. Hosted URLs and `file_id` inputs are rejected\n4. Give a `choice` question a fallback value such as `other`, and set thresholds from your own labelled examples\n5. Use Python SDK 3.26.0 or JavaScript 7.30.0 or later, and follow `Retry-After` on 429 and 503\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Laya or OpenAI Decisions API?\n\nOpenAI Decisions API scores 71.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Laya's 69.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Laya leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Which is cheaper for inference decision, Laya or OpenAI Decisions API?\n\nLaya, at free against $0.10 per 1M tokens for OpenAI Decisions API. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Laya and OpenAI Decisions API need an API key?\n\nLaya needs no key. OpenAI Decisions API needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Laya and OpenAI Decisions API without installing anything?\n\nLaya runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. OpenAI Decisions API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.openai.com/v1/decisions.\n\n### Are Laya and OpenAI Decisions API open source?\n\nLaya is open source (Apache-2.0). 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