Open alternatives to LLM classification APIs
Some teams use a large language model only to pick a label or fill a schema. Decision models that emit option probabilities in one forward pass are an emerging alternative. This hub is editorial; it is not a vendor product page.
- Cloudflare Clef — 27B multimodal decision model that returns option probabilities in one forward pass.
How we pick
- Card describes a decision or classification head, not open-ended chat.
- License and parameter count taken from Hugging Face.
- Watch-list names are not given a page until they meet publish rules.
Comparison
| Name | License | Developer | Parameters | Type / modalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Clef | Apache-2.0 | Cloudflare | 27B | text, image, video, JSON |
On this hub
- Cloudflare Clef — 27B, Apache-2.0, 2,074 likes, listed 2026-09-30. The card also mentions a smaller Clef-Flash variant; we have no extra verified stats for Flash in the seed file.
Watch (no page)
LiquidAI d1 (LiquidAI/d1-3B) is a 3B edge multimodal decision/classification model fine-tuned from LFM2.5-VL-3B, license “other”, 328 likes, 2026-10-05. It stays off the sitemap until triage promotes it.
Listed options
Cloudflare Clef
27B multimodal decision model that returns option probabilities in one forward pass.
FAQ
What is a decision model here?
Cloudflare Clef is documented as a 27B multimodal decision model: it takes text, JSON, images, or video plus a question schema and returns per-option probabilities in one forward pass, without free-text generation (Hugging Face card, 2026-10-13).
Why isn’t LiquidAI d1 listed as a full page?
LiquidAI/d1-3B is verified as a 3B decision model (license “other”, 328 likes, 2026-10-05) but the first-page plan keeps it on the watch list. We do not publish a thin page from a watch item.
Is Clef based on Qwen?
The card states it is post-trained from Qwen3.8-27B (verified 2026-10-13).
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Sources & verification
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