# Clef vs Strands Decider 2B (slim)

> Clef scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Strands Decider 2B's 61.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Strands Decider 2B leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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Clef scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Strands Decider 2B's 61.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Strands Decider 2B leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do inference decision.

- Clef: B 66.3, rank #159 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-clef.min.md
- Strands Decider 2B: C 61.3, rank #235 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-decider.min.md
- Clef, good for Classification, routing and rubric scoring over text, JSON and images inside Cloudflare, or self-hosted where data can't leave. Ahead on Reliability, 61 against 50; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 69; Security & auth, 69 against 49; Transparency & trust, 89 against 54. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- Strands Decider 2B, good for Cheap, local classification, routing, triage and tool-call checks on short text inside Strands or other Python agents, and for teams who want to retrain a decision model from a published recipe. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Maintenance & community, 79 against 56. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Clef | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 61 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 75 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 69 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 89 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Clef | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cloudflare | Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clef` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (weights and scoring code, following the Qwen base models). Training code and data aren't published | Apache-2.0 (code, LoRA adapter, readout head, training recipe and data inventory), on the Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5-2B-Base |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-05 |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 2/5 (1) |