# GLiClass vs Vela 2.0 (slim)

> Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against GLiClass's 49.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. GLiClass leads on transparency & trust. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against GLiClass's 49.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. GLiClass leads on transparency & trust. Both do inference decision.

- GLiClass: D 49.9, rank #697 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gliclass.min.md
- Vela 2.0: B 66.5, rank #268 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vela.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 Transparency & trust, 64 against 48.
- 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 Reliability, 57 against 43; Schema & documentation, 78 against 49; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 60; Security & auth, 60 against 38; Maintenance & community, 84 against 44.

| Category | GLiClass | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 49 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 60 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 38 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 44 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | GLiClass | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Knowledgator | vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (library and the model weights we checked) | 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 | 2026-07-21 | 2026-10-06 |
| Popularity | 555 stars, 13k PyPI/wk | 6.1k stars |