# Granite Switch 4.1 vs Liquid d1 (slim)

> Granite Switch 4.1 scores 59.4 (C) to Liquid d1's 44.5 (E) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Granite Switch 4.1 scores 59.4 (C) on agent readiness against Liquid d1's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do decision models.

- Granite Switch 4.1: C 59.4, rank #601 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch.min.md
- Liquid d1: E 44.5, rank #990 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liquid-d1.min.md
- Granite Switch 4.1, good for A team with a GPU that wants chat, routing decisions, a safety gate and English transcription from one self-hosted endpoint under a permissive licence. Ahead on Reliability, 46 against 21; Security & auth, 54 against 35; Payments & pricing, 60 against 35; Maintenance & community, 81 against 60; Transparency & trust, 74 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, with d1-ultra for harder cases, or on your own hardware with d1-3B where data can't leave. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Granite Switch 4.1 | Liquid d1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 46 | 21 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 35 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Granite Switch 4.1 | Liquid d1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | IBM | 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 for the weights, the adapters and the repository | 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 | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-15 |
| 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 |