# Liquid d1 vs kettei (slim)

> kettei scores 58.3 (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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kettei scores 58.3 (C) on agent readiness against Liquid d1's 44.5 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do decision models.

- Liquid d1: E 44.5, rank #990 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liquid-d1.min.md
- kettei: C 58.3, rank #640 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sqwish-kettei.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, with d1-ultra for harder cases, or on your own hardware with d1-3B where data can't leave.
- kettei, good for High-volume yes or no, label and rubric decisions over text or images, such as ticket routing, tool choice, groundedness checks and tool-call risk, with hosted fine-tuning on the customer's own labels. Ahead on Reliability, 30 against 21; Schema & documentation, 87 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 89 against 63; Security & auth, 68 against 35. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 3.0 out of 5.

| Category | Liquid d1 | kettei |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 21 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 59 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 89 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 35 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 57 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Liquid d1 | kettei |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Liquid AI | Sqwish Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.liquid.ai/decisions/v1/systemone` | `https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide` |
| 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 and API. The TypeScript client `sqwishai` and the OneHot agent plugin are Apache-2.0. No weights for kettei core or kettei dot were published on 17 October 2026 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-30 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 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 |  |
| Popularity | none | 1.2k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.8/5 (4) |