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clm vs laya

Q: Can I run clm or laya locally?

Yes, both: systemone pull contrastive-lm/clm and systemone pull convai-innovations/laya download the weights.

Contrastive-LM: clm and Convai Innovations: laya, compared on what they decide, where they run, what they cost and what their publishers report.

The short version

Both have open weights you can download and run.
Both answer choice, score, noul, classify and route questions.
Only clm answers rank.
laya is the smaller model, at 421M parameters to 8.0B.

Property	contrastive-lm/clm	convai-innovations/laya
Summary	Contrastive Language Models score a state against a set of candidate actions with a contrastive objective. Two projection heads on frozen Qwen3-8B embeddings, trained with InfoNCE; clm-serve maps Choice, Score and Noul onto candidate ranking.	An open-weights System One model from Convai Innovations. A fully fine-tuned ModernBERT-large encoder with a from-scratch decision head that scores one marker per option and answers every question in a single 33–39 ms pass. Runs on your own CPU or GPU.
Decides	choice, score, noul, rank, classify, route	choice, score, noul, classify, route
Architecture	clm	laya
Fine-tuned from	qwen/qwen3-8b	answerdotai/modernbert-large
License	apache-2.0	apache-2.0
Availability	Open weights	Open weights
Hosted by	—	—
Input price	—	—
Decision accuracy	—	—
Calibration error	—	—
Valid action rate	—	—
Median latency	—	39.5 ms
p95 latency	—

Figures are from each model’s manifest; accuracy and latency are what the publishers report, on their own suites and hardware. Add a third model.

Questions

What is the difference between clm and laya?

clm is from Contrastive-LM and laya from Convai Innovations. Both have open weights you can download and run. Both answer choice, score, noul, classify and route questions. Only clm answers rank. laya is the smaller model, at 421M parameters to 8.0B.

Which is more accurate, clm or laya?

Neither publishes an accuracy figure. Test both on your own labelled examples.

Which is cheaper, clm or laya?

clm: Free (open weights). laya: Free (open weights). Open weights cost nothing per call beyond your own hardware.

Can I run clm or laya locally?

Yes, both: systemone pull contrastive-lm/clm and systemone pull convai-innovations/laya download the weights.