# Decider vs Vela 2.0 (slim)

> Decider scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Vela 2.0's 66.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Vela 2.0 leads on security & auth. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Decider scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Vela 2.0's 66.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Vela 2.0 leads on security & auth. Both do inference decision.

- Decider: B 69.5, rank #172 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decider.min.md
- Vela 2.0: B 66.5, rank #268 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vela.min.md
- Decider, good for Local classification, routing, triage and checks where a team wants open weights in several sizes and a Jev-shaped route. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 57.
- Vela 2.0, good for Self-hosted routing and guardrail checks in one call, where span offsets for personal data or unsupported claims matter. Ahead on Security & auth, 60 against 38.

| Category | Decider | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 38 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 46 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Decider | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mark Marosi (Mapika) | vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (code and weights) | 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 |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-06 |
| Popularity | 1.1k stars, 2.7k PyPI/wk | 6.1k stars |