Drex 1.5 vs kettei

Drex 1.5

The hosted endpoint has a public OpenAPI document, published limits and pinned model versions, at $0.05 per million input tokens with no output charge. The #1 under 10B claim rests on Nace's own run, since Drex is absent from both public boards. Weights carry Open RAIL-M, which requires a commercial licence above $1 million in revenue or funding.

kettei

OneHot returns probabilities for up to 128 typed questions a call at $0.02 to $0.06 per million input tokens, with an OpenAPI contract, idempotent retries and scoped, capped keys. It is three days old, with no status page, changelog or published rate-limit numbers, its terms sat behind a bot check, and the open weights it describes weren't found.

Drex 1.5

1. Call https://console.nace.ai/v1/systemone with Authorization: Bearer nace_sk_..., and pin model drex-v1.5 rather than drex-latest in production.
2. Stop on 402 insufficient_credit or 402 payment_required until credit is topped up or the unpaid invoice is paid.
3. Retry 429 and 529 after retry-after-ms. On a 422 for an unknown model, use one of the ids the error message lists.
4. Keep state below 131,072 tokens and the body below 1,048,576 bytes, and send at most 512 questions per request.
5. Keep the key on a server. A key in browser code is exposed, and the /v1 routes send no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header.
6. Check usage.input_tokens and the usage CSV after retries, since /v1/systemone documents no idempotency key.

kettei

1. Send context and decisions to POST https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide with a bearer key. Leaving out model gets kettei-core, which reads text only
2. Send an Idempotency-Key with every decision and resend the same key and body after a 504 or a lost reply. Replays aren't charged
3. Branch on error.code and error.retryable, not the status. Wait for Retry-After on 429 and retryable 503s
4. Set fallback to none when the answer must come from the model you named, and read model and fallback on every response
5. Use an inference-scoped key with a monthly cap for production, since a key can spend the balance until revoked