# GLiClass vs kettei

> kettei scores 58.3 (C) to GLiClass's 49.9 (D) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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kettei scores 58.3 (C) on agent readiness against GLiClass's 49.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. GLiClass leads on reliability, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do decision models.

- GLiClass: grade D, 49.9/100, rank #884 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gliclass.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gliclass.json
- kettei: grade C, 58.3/100, rank #640 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sqwish-kettei.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sqwish-kettei.json
- Best decision models for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/decision-models/index.md
- All 190 decisions comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decision-models/index.md

## Which one, for what

### GLiClass (D)

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 30
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 35
- Transparency & trust, 64 against 51

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Open source

Watch for: No calibration evidence. The cards report F1 only, and the docs tell users to calibrate thresholds on their own traffic

### kettei (C)

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 49
- Agent ergonomics, 89 against 60
- Security & auth, 68 against 38
- Maintenance & community, 57 against 44

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: Launched on 14 October 2026, with no status page, no changelog and no SLA


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | GLiClass | kettei | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 43 | 30 | GLiClass +13 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 49 | 87 | kettei +38 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 89 | kettei +29 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 68 | kettei +30 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 35 | GLiClass +25 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 44 | 57 | kettei +13 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 51 | GLiClass +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **49.9 · D** | **58.3 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | GLiClass | kettei |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | Model API |
| Vendor | Knowledgator | Sqwish Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (library and the model weights we checked) | 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 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-07-21 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Popularity | 555 stars, 13k PyPI/wk | 1.2k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**GLiClass.** An Apache-2.0 classifier that scores a whole label set in one encoder pass on the owner's hardware, with single-label, multi-label, hierarchical and few-shot modes. It returns label scores with no calibration claim, the bundled server has no authentication, and the last three test runs on the main branch, on 24 September 2026, failed.

**kettei.** OneHot returns probabilities for up to 128 typed questions a call at $0.02 to $0.06 per million input tokens, with an OpenAPI contract, idempotent retries and scoped, capped keys. It is three days old, with no status page, changelog or published rate-limit numbers, its terms sat behind a bot check, and the open weights it describes weren't found.

## Before you call either

### GLiClass

1. Pass `--host 127.0.0.1` to `python -m gliclass.serve`, or put the port behind your own gateway. The server checks no credential
2. On a machine without a GPU add `--device cpu --dtype float32 --num-gpus-per-replica 0`. The default configuration expects CUDA
3. Send one text a request to `POST /gliclass`. An array in `texts` is cut to its first item without an error
4. Set `multi_label` to false for one label from a set. The default scores each label independently, so scores do not sum to 1
5. Keep text plus labels under the pipeline's 1,024-token `max_length`, or use `ZeroShotClassificationWithChunkingPipeline`. Longer input is truncated silently

### kettei

1. Send `context` and `decisions` to `POST https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide` with a bearer key. Leaving out `model` gets `kettei-core`, which reads text only
2. Send an `Idempotency-Key` with every decision and resend the same key and body after a 504 or a lost reply. Replays aren't charged
3. Branch on `error.code` and `error.retryable`, not the status. Wait for `Retry-After` on 429 and retryable 503s
4. Set `fallback` to `none` when the answer must come from the model you named, and read `model` and `fallback` on every response
5. Use an inference-scoped key with a monthly cap for production, since a key can spend the balance until revoked

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, GLiClass or kettei?

kettei scores 58.3 (C) on agent readiness against GLiClass's 49.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. GLiClass leads on reliability, payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

### Do GLiClass and kettei need an API key?

GLiClass needs no key. kettei needs an API key.

### Can an agent call GLiClass and kettei without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for GLiClass. kettei has a hosted endpoint at https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide.

### Are GLiClass and kettei open source?

GLiClass is open source (Apache-2.0 (library and the model weights we checked)). No open-source release is listed for kettei.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gliclass-vs-sqwish-kettei.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gliclass-vs-sqwish-kettei.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "gliclass", "b": "sqwish-kettei"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare gliclass sqwish-kettei`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gliclass.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sqwish-kettei.json

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