# SPEV vs Vela 2.0 (slim)

> Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (B) to SPEV's 51.1 (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 SPEV's 51.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. SPEV leads on transparency & trust. Both do decision models.

- SPEV: D 51.1, rank #819 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprag-spev.min.md
- Vela 2.0: B 66.5, rank #310 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vela.min.md
- 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 Transparency & trust, 54 against 48. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- 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 45; Security & auth, 60 against 33; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Maintenance & community, 84 against 49. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | SPEV | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 33 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 49 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | SPEV | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Sprag | vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.sprag.ai/v1/decisions` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (weights and inference code, following the Qwen3-Omni base). Training code and data aren't published | 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 | 2026-09-01 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-01 | no document linked |
| 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 | 6.1k stars |