# Laya vs ScaleDown (slim)

> Laya scores 69.2 (B) to ScaleDown's 48.6 (D) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Laya scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against ScaleDown's 48.6 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do decision models.

- Laya: B 69.2, rank #200 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convai-laya.min.md
- ScaleDown: D 48.6, rank #873 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scaledown.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 20; Schema & documentation, 80 against 69; Security & auth, 57 against 48; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Maintenance & community, 83 against 56; Transparency & trust, 62 against 54. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- ScaleDown, good for Cheap, high-volume labelling, routing and yes or no checks where a probability is more useful than prose, and for pulling described fields with offsets from text, images or PDFs. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Laya | ScaleDown |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 20 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 56 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Laya | ScaleDown |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Convai Innovations | Carbon ScaleDown, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.scaledown.xyz` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary hosted models under ScaleDown's Terms of Service. The langchain-scaledown integration is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 29k stars | 0 stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |