LLM Reference

Laya

Released
2026-09-18
Last refreshed
2026-09-24
Status
Researched 4d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedAgentsClassificationJSON / Tool useAgent

Laya is available now for agents, classification, and json / tool use with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating agents, classification, and json / tool use
  • Workloads that can use a 512 context window

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Teams that need a tracked hosted API route today
Specifications
Family
Laya
Released
2026-09-18
Context
512
Parameters
421M
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
Training
Reinforcement Learning
Created by

ConvAI Innovations is the lab publishing the open-weight Laya System 1 decision model family on Hugging Face (org convai

Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

Laya is ConvAI Innovations' English open-weight System 1 decision model (ModernBERT-large, 421M, context 512), released on Hugging Face on 2026-09-18 under Apache 2.0. It is non-autoregressive: a state plus typed questions (choice, score, or noul) returns calibrated probabilities in one forward pass, trained with RLCD, and it does not generate text. Install with pip install laya; the Router sends English inputs here and other languages to Laya Multilingual. The family hub also ships laya-multilingual and laya-typed-decisions. A community package, laya-serve, exposes a Jev-compatible POST /v1/systemone endpoint; ConvAI does not publish a hosted per-token price.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Classification

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

JSON / Tool use

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

Structured OutputsFine-tuning

Benchmark peer barsfor Agents

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

API versions

layaconvaiinnovations/layalaya-english