# Granite Switch 4.1 vs RightNow System Zero (slim)

> RightNow System Zero scores 66.8 (B) to Granite Switch 4.1's 59.5 (C) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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RightNow System Zero scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Granite Switch 4.1's 59.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Granite Switch 4.1 leads on payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do decision models.

- Granite Switch 4.1: C 59.5, rank #639 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch.min.md
- RightNow System Zero: B 66.8, rank #320 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rightnow-system-zero.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 Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Maintenance & community, 81 against 68; Transparency & trust, 75 against 70. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- RightNow System Zero, good for Typed decisions with per-option probabilities over text, JSON, images, audio and PDFs, including on streaming state Ahead on Schema & documentation, 83 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 86 against 66; Security & auth, 70 against 54. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Granite Switch 4.1 | RightNow System Zero |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 46 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 86 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 68 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Granite Switch 4.1 | RightNow System Zero |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | IBM | RightNow AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.rightnowai.co/v1/system-zero/decide` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, websocket |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 for the weights, the adapters and the repository | Proprietary hosted model under RightNow AI terms of use; the SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-27 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| 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 |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |