# ScaleDown vs Vela 2.0 (slim)

> Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (B) to ScaleDown's 48.6 (D) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against ScaleDown's 48.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ScaleDown leads on transparency & trust. Both do decision models.

- ScaleDown: D 48.6, rank #873 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scaledown.min.md
- Vela 2.0: B 66.5, rank #308 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vela.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 Transparency & trust, 54 against 48. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- 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 20; Schema & documentation, 78 against 69; Security & auth, 60 against 48; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Maintenance & community, 84 against 56. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | ScaleDown | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 20 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ScaleDown | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Carbon ScaleDown, Inc. | vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scaledown.xyz` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted models under ScaleDown's Terms of Service. The langchain-scaledown integration is MIT | 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 | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| 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 | 6.1k stars |