# Granite Switch 4.1 vs Vela 2.0 (slim)

> Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (B) to Granite Switch 4.1's 59.4 (C) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Granite Switch 4.1's 59.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Granite Switch 4.1 leads on transparency & trust. Both do decision models.

- Granite Switch 4.1: C 59.4, rank #601 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch.min.md
- Vela 2.0: B 66.5, rank #313 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vela.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 Transparency & trust, 74 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 46; Schema & documentation, 78 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 66; Security & auth, 60 against 54. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 4.3 against 3.0 out of 5.

| Category | Granite Switch 4.1 | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 46 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Granite Switch 4.1 | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | IBM | vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 for the weights, the adapters and the repository | 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 | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-06 |
| Popularity | none | 6.1k stars |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 4.3/5 (4) |