# GLiClass vs Liquid d1 (slim)

> GLiClass scores 49.9 (D) on agent readiness against Liquid d1's 43.5 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Liquid d1 leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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GLiClass scores 49.9 (D) on agent readiness against Liquid d1's 43.5 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Liquid d1 leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do inference decision.

- GLiClass: D 49.9, rank #697 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gliclass.min.md
- Liquid d1: E 43.5, rank #784 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liquid-d1.min.md
- GLiClass, good for Topic, intent and sentiment routing over a known label set on the owner's own CPU or GPU, where many labels must be scored at once. Ahead on Reliability, 43 against 21; Payments & pricing, 60 against 27; Transparency & trust, 64 against 54. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- Liquid d1, good for Classification, routing, yes or no gates and rubric scoring over text and images at a low per-token price, or on your own hardware with d1-3B where data can't leave. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 59 against 49; Maintenance & community, 60 against 44. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | GLiClass | Liquid d1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 21 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 49 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 60 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 38 | 35 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 27 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 44 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | GLiClass | Liquid d1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Knowledgator | Liquid AI |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.liquid.ai/decisions/v1/systemone` |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (library and the model weights we checked) | The hosted d1 model is proprietary under Liquid AI's terms of service. The d1-3B and d1-omni-600M weights and model code are under the LFM Open Licence v1.0, which is based on Apache-2.0 and conditions commercial use on annual revenue under $10 million. Training code and data aren't published |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-07-21 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-30 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| 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 | 555 stars, 13k PyPI/wk | none |