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
| Category | Weight this run | SPEV | kettei | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 45 | 30 | SPEV +15 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 81 | 87 | kettei +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 76 | 89 | kettei +13 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 33 | 68 | kettei +35 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 30 | 35 | kettei +5 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 49 | 57 | kettei +8 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 54 | 51 | SPEV +3 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -2 | |
| Total | D 51.1/100 | C 58.3/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | SPEV | kettei |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Model API | Model API |
| Vendor | Sprag | Sqwish Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | https://api.sprag.ai/v1/decisions | https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (weights and inference code, following the Qwen3-Omni base). Training code and data aren't published | 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 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-01 | |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-01 | |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |
| Popularity | none | 1.2k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (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
- Send
model: "spev"toPOST https://api.sprag.ai/v1/decisionswith a bearer key./v1/systemonereturns 410 - Ask every question about one piece of evidence in one request. Answers come back in question order
- Send audio as base64 in
input_audiowithformat, not as a data URL, and at most one image across all messages - Keep evidence and questions under 8,192 tokens. Over the limit returns 400
model_limit_exceeded - Back off on 429 and 503 for
Retry-Afterseconds. Limits are 60 requests a minute per organisation by default - Handle an answer of type
refusal, which carries no probabilities
kettei
- Send
contextanddecisionstoPOST https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decidewith a bearer key. Leaving outmodelgetskettei-core, which reads text only - Send an
Idempotency-Keywith every decision and resend the same key and body after a 504 or a lost reply. Replays aren't charged - Branch on
error.codeanderror.retryable, not the status. Wait forRetry-Afteron 429 and retryable 503s - Set
fallbacktononewhen the answer must come from the model you named, and readmodelandfallbackon every response - 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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Machine-readable
- This page as Markdown
/compare/sprag-spev-vs-sqwish-kettei.md· slim.min.md· JSON.json(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - Each listing in full
/api/v1/tools/sprag-spev.json·/api/v1/tools/sqwish-kettei.json - From a terminal
anchor compare sprag-spev sqwish-kettei(the CLI) - Over MCP
compare_tools {"a": "sprag-spev", "b": "sqwish-kettei"}at/mcp, no key