# Laya vs kettei (slim)

> Laya scores 69.2 (B) to kettei's 58.3 (C) 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 kettei's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. kettei leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do decision models.

- Laya: B 69.2, rank #208 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convai-laya.min.md
- kettei: C 58.3, rank #640 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sqwish-kettei.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 30; Payments & pricing, 60 against 35; Maintenance & community, 83 against 57; Transparency & trust, 62 against 51. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- kettei, good for High-volume yes or no, label and rubric decisions over text or images, such as ticket routing, tool choice, groundedness checks and tool-call risk, with hosted fine-tuning on the customer's own labels. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 80; Agent ergonomics, 89 against 80; Security & auth, 68 against 57. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 2.5 out of 5.

| Category | Laya | kettei |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 89 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 57 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Laya | kettei |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Convai Innovations | Sqwish Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary hosted models and API. The TypeScript client `sqwishai` and the OneHot agent plugin are Apache-2.0. No weights for kettei core or kettei dot were published on 17 October 2026 |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Popularity | 29k stars | 1.2k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3.8/5 (4) |