# Laya vs Vela 2.0 (slim)

> Laya scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against Vela 2.0's 66.5 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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 Vela 2.0's 66.5 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do inference decision.

- Laya: B 69.2, rank #163 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convai-laya.min.md
- Vela 2.0: B 66.5, rank #237 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vela.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 57; Transparency & trust, 62 against 48. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Vela 2.0, good for Self-hosted routing and guardrail checks in one call, where span offsets for personal data or unsupported claims matter.

| Category | Laya | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Laya | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Convai Innovations | vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 (weights, code and documentation). The 0.3B's tokeniser keeps the Gemma Terms of Use, and training data keeps its own licences |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-06 |
| Popularity | 29k stars | 6.1k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |