# Liquid d1 vs ScaleDown (slim)

> ScaleDown scores 48.6 (D) to Liquid d1's 43.5 (E) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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ScaleDown scores 48.6 (D) on agent readiness against Liquid d1's 43.5 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do decision models.

- Liquid d1: E 43.5, rank #960 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liquid-d1.min.md
- ScaleDown: D 48.6, rank #873 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scaledown.min.md
- Liquid d1, good for Classification, routing, yes or no gates and rubric scoring over text and images at a low per-token price, or on your own hardware with d1-3B where data can't leave.
- ScaleDown, good for Cheap, high-volume labelling, routing and yes or no checks where a probability is more useful than prose, and for pulling described fields with offsets from text, images or PDFs. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 69 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 76 against 63; Security & auth, 48 against 35; Payments & pricing, 40 against 27. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Liquid d1 | ScaleDown |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 21 | 20 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 59 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 35 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 27 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 56 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Liquid d1 | ScaleDown |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Liquid AI | Carbon ScaleDown, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.liquid.ai/decisions/v1/systemone` | `https://api.scaledown.xyz` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary hosted models under ScaleDown's Terms of Service. The langchain-scaledown integration is MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-30 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-30 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 0 stars |