# ScaleDown vs kettei (slim)

> kettei scores 58.3 (C) to ScaleDown's 48.6 (D) 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 ScaleDown's 48.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScaleDown leads on payments & pricing. Both do decision models.

- ScaleDown: D 48.6, rank #917 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scaledown.min.md
- kettei: C 58.3, rank #640 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sqwish-kettei.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 Payments & pricing, 40 against 35. Also Free to start without a card.
- 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 20; Schema & documentation, 87 against 69; Agent ergonomics, 89 against 76; Security & auth, 68 against 48.

| Category | ScaleDown | kettei |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 20 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 89 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 57 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ScaleDown | kettei |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Carbon ScaleDown, Inc. | Sqwish Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scaledown.xyz` | `https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide` |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted models under ScaleDown's Terms of Service. The langchain-scaledown integration is MIT | 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 |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read |  |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read |  |
| Popularity | 0 stars | 1.2k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (4) |