Head to head · Decision models · October 2026 research run

SPEV vs kettei

kettei scores 58.3 (C) on agent readiness against SPEV's 51.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. SPEV leads on reliability. Both do decision models.

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Which one, for what

SPEV D

Best 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 30

Watch for

Published on 14 October 2026, with no service record, no status page and no API changelog

kettei C

Best 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

  • Schema & documentation, 87 against 81
  • Agent ergonomics, 89 against 76
  • Security & auth, 68 against 33
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 57 against 49

Watch for

Launched on 14 October 2026, with no status page, no changelog and no SLA

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runSPEVketteiEdge
Reliability16%204530SPEV +15
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28187kettei +6
Agent ergonomics13%16.27689kettei +13
Security & auth14%17.53368kettei +35
Payments & pricing10%12.53035kettei +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.84957kettei +8
Transparency & trust7%8.85451SPEV +3
Negative events≤15-2-2
TotalD 51.1/100C 58.3/100

Facts side by side

FactSPEVkettei
KindModel APIModel API
VendorSpragSqwish Labs
Hosted endpointhttps://api.sprag.ai/v1/decisionshttps://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPay per usePay per use
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0 (weights and inference code, following the Qwen3-Omni base). Training code and data aren't publishedProprietary 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
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-142026-10-15
Terms last updated2026-09-01
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-01
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularitynone1.2k npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

SPEV

SPEV answers typed questions over text, audio or an image in one call, with a public OpenAPI schema and Apache-2.0 weights on Hugging Face. It is a day old, has an 8,192-token context, no status page or changelog, and Sprag's terms let it train on API content unless the customer opts out by email.

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.

Before you call either

SPEV

  1. Send model: "spev" to POST https://api.sprag.ai/v1/decisions with a bearer key. /v1/systemone returns 410
  2. Ask every question about one piece of evidence in one request. Answers come back in question order
  3. Send audio as base64 in input_audio with format, not as a data URL, and at most one image across all messages
  4. Keep evidence and questions under 8,192 tokens. Over the limit returns 400 model_limit_exceeded
  5. Back off on 429 and 503 for Retry-After seconds. Limits are 60 requests a minute per organisation by default
  6. Handle an answer of type refusal, which carries no probabilities

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

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, SPEV or kettei?

kettei scores 58.3 (C) on agent readiness against SPEV's 51.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. SPEV leads on reliability.

Do SPEV and kettei need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call SPEV and kettei without installing anything?

Yes. SPEV has a hosted endpoint at https://api.sprag.ai/v1/decisions and kettei at https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide.

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