What is the laya-php SDK?

A PHP SDK for Laya, described in the README as a Jev AI alternative: a multilingual decision engine that answers typed questions about text in a single forward pass, wrapped for PHP and Laravel applications.

How is Laya related to Jev?

The package description calls Laya a Jev AI alternative, and its answer types, choice, score and yes/no, are the same typed-decision shape: enums, ints and bools with calibrated confidence instead of free-form generated text.

What does a typical laya-php call look like?

You pass text plus a readonly class describing the decision: $laya->decide() with a billing complaint and Triage::class returns a Triage instance whose department is an enum such as Department::Billing and whose churn flag is a bool.

Does my text leave my infrastructure?

No, according to the README: Laya is self-hosted, so text never leaves your infrastructure and you pay no per-token fees. The SDK talks to a laya-serve server that runs Laya's Python stack.

How do I test code that calls Laya?

The SDK ships a built-in fake that lets you unit-test without a running server, so decision-dependent code can be exercised in CI without infrastructure.

What quality signals does laya-php show?

The badge row shows a passing CI workflow, Packagist distribution, Laravel 13+ support, PHPStan at level max and 100% test coverage; the repo is Apache-2.0 with 106 stars and 3 forks.

Where are laya-php's limits?

It is a client: the decision engine itself is Laya, which runs in Python via laya-serve. The digest excerpt cuts off at the documentation link, so install steps, auth requirements and engine performance are not covered here.

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Laya Php

A Laravel-ready PHP SDK for Laya, a self-hosted multilingual decision engine described as a Jev AI alternative: classify text in 100+ languages and get typed enums, ints and bools back without paying per-token fees.

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Stars: 106
Language: PHP
License: APACHE-2.0
Reading time: 2 min
Published by: Community
Author: marcreichel
Last verified: Oct 2026

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Classify text in PHP without an LLM bill: typed decisions in 100+ languages, self-hosted. Laravel-ready SDK for Laya, a Jev AI alternative.

Forks: 3
Last pushed: Updated Oct 2026

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Tagscommunity github php laravel classification

Works forJev for Classification Jev for Routing Jev for Scoring

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Languages: PHP
Platforms: API
Capabilities: Open sourceSelf-hosted

Highlights

Describes Laya, the engine it wraps, as a Jev AI alternative: a multilingual decision engine answering choice, score and yes/no questions in one forward pass.
A $laya->decide() call returns a readonly class of typed enums, ints and bools, so answers flow straight into application code.
Self-hosted: the README says text never leaves your infrastructure and there are no per-token fees.
Every answer carries a confidence you can threshold to send unsure cases to a human; a built-in fake supports unit tests without a running server.
Badges show Laravel 13+, PHPStan level max and 100% coverage, and the SDK talks to Laya's laya-serve Python server.

Quickstart

php

$triage = $laya->decide('Hi, we were billed twice for March. Refund it today or we cancel.', Triage::class);

$triage->department;
$triage->churn;

Watch out

README reviewed 2026-10-17; the excerpt truncates mid-sentence at the laya-serve documentation link, shows no composer install command or version requirements, and gives no latency or accuracy numbers for the engine it wraps.

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