# ScaleDown vs SPEV (slim)

> SPEV scores 51.1 (D) to ScaleDown's 48.6 (D) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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SPEV scores 51.1 (D) on agent readiness against ScaleDown's 48.6 (D), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. ScaleDown leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do decision models.

- ScaleDown: D 48.6, rank #880 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scaledown.min.md
- SPEV: D 51.1, rank #819 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprag-spev.min.md
- 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 Security & auth, 48 against 33; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 56 against 49. Also Free to start without a card.
- SPEV, good for Typed decisions over raw audio, such as end-of-turn detection, call triage and flagging, plus text and single images, hosted or self-hosted. Ahead on Reliability, 45 against 20; Schema & documentation, 81 against 69.

| Category | ScaleDown | SPEV |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 20 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 33 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 49 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ScaleDown | SPEV |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Carbon ScaleDown, Inc. | Sprag |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scaledown.xyz` | `https://api.sprag.ai/v1/decisions` |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted models under ScaleDown's Terms of Service. The langchain-scaledown integration is MIT | Apache-2.0 (weights and inference code, following the Qwen3-Omni base). Training code and data aren't published |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-08-01 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 0 stars | none |