# Laya vs SPEV (slim)

> Laya scores 69.2 (B) to SPEV's 51.1 (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 SPEV's 51.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do decision models.

- Laya: B 69.2, rank #202 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convai-laya.min.md
- SPEV: D 51.1, rank #819 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprag-spev.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 45; Security & auth, 57 against 33; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Maintenance & community, 83 against 49; Transparency & trust, 62 against 54. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- SPEV, good for Typed decisions over raw audio, such as end-of-turn detection, call triage and flagging, plus text and single images, hosted or self-hosted. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Laya | SPEV |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 33 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 49 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Laya | SPEV |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Convai Innovations | Sprag |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sprag.ai/v1/decisions` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 (weights and inference code, following the Qwen3-Omni base). Training code and data aren't published |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |
| 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 |