# Liquid d1 vs Vela 2.0 (slim)

> Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Liquid d1's 43.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Liquid d1 leads on transparency & trust. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Liquid d1's 43.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Liquid d1 leads on transparency & trust. Both do inference decision.

- Liquid d1: E 43.5, rank #582 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liquid-d1.min.md
- Vela 2.0: B 66.5, rank #219 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vela.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. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 54 against 48. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- 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 21; Schema & documentation, 78 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 63; Security & auth, 60 against 35; Payments & pricing, 60 against 27; Maintenance & community, 84 against 60. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Liquid d1 | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 21 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 59 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 35 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 27 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Liquid d1 | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Liquid AI | vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.liquid.ai/decisions/v1/systemone` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| 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 | 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 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-30 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-30 | no document linked |
| 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 | 6.1k stars |