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Laya is software you run, and its server has no payment route (checked 2026-10-02).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": 29200, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-02" }, "docsUrl": "https://nandhakishorm.github.io/laya/", "capabilities": [ "inference.decision" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-source", "open-weights", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "python", "mcp", "batch", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 208, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 60, "reliability": 65, "schema": 80, "security": 57, "transparency": 62 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Apache-2.0 code and weights, installed with `pip install laya`, with Python 3.10 to 3.13 tested in CI. Base checkpoints score 0.362 and 0.352 on the maintainers' typed-decisions benchmark against a 0.318 random baseline, so it needs fine-tuning.", "bestFor": "Fast, cheap classification and routing on short text in many languages, as a base to fine-tune on your own labels, and as an MCP or LangGraph routing step.", "strengths": [ "Apache-2.0 code and weights, installed with `pip install laya`, with Python 3.10 to 3.13 tested in CI", "421M and 322M-parameter encoders that the README times at 32.8 to 39.5 ms for one question on a Tesla T4", "A Jev-compatible HTTP server with a batch route for up to 64 states, an 8-tool MCP server, and LangChain, LlamaIndex and CrewAI wrappers", "A multilingual checkpoint for 100+ languages and a router that picks the checkpoint per request", "An honest-limits section in the README, SECURITY.md with private reporting, and CI that runs gitleaks, pip-audit and CodeQL" ], "weaknesses": [ "Base checkpoints score 0.362 and 0.352 on the maintainers' typed-decisions benchmark against a 0.318 random baseline, so it needs fine-tuning", "Choice options share a 192 or 256-token budget, and the README reports 0.425 on Banking77's 77 labels", "512 tokens of context on the English checkpoint and 1,024 by default on the others", "`laya-serve` listens on 0.0.0.0 with no key unless `LAYA_API_KEY` is set", "26 releases in 13 days, still 0.x and marked beta, with 61 open issues and 81 open pull requests" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `LAYA_API_KEY` before starting `laya-serve`. It listens on every interface by default", "Gate on `answer_confidence`, not `confidence`, which measures entropy and doesn't match Jev's field", "Shortlist choice questions with more than about 20 options using `predict_shortlist` or the `laya_shortlist` tool", "Use semantic or opaque labels such as `A` and `B`, not `yes` and `no`, in choice questions. The checkpoints can follow the label text", "Pass `model=\"multilingual\"` and `max_len=8192` for long documents. 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The Apache-2.0 licence stands in for terms." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convai-laya.json", "live": { "slug": "convai-laya", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "NandhaKishorM/laya", "version": "v0.4.8", "released": "2026-10-15", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:42:13.117510703Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "laya", "version": "0.4.8", "released": "2026-10-15", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:42:12.92511952Z" } ], "githubStars": 33176, "pypiWeekly": 65677, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://convaiinnovations.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:01.489885152Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "convaiinnovations.com", "registered": "2021-09-01", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/convaiinnovations.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:22:10.228622332Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:01.489885152Z" } }, "answer": "Laya scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider-flash's 67.9 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. pplx-decider-flash leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "pplx-decider-flash", "name": "pplx-decider-flash", "vendor": "Perplexity", "vendorUrl": "https://www.perplexity.ai/", "kind": "model", "category": "decision-models", "summary": "pplx-decider-flash is Perplexity's 4B decision model, a Qwen3.5-4B fine-tune distilled from the 27B pplx-decider. 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Keys are created in the API console after a project exists, are shown once, and can be generated and revoked through `/generate_auth_token` and `/revoke_auth_token`, per the 9 October check. No per-key scopes were found. Weights. The Hugging Face repository is public and not gated, although its model card still says to authenticate with a Hugging Face token.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$0.01 per million input tokens on Perplexity's Decisions API for `pplx-decider-flash-v1.2`, half the 27B model's price. Output tokens are free and there is no per-request fee. Usage draws on prepaid credits, and the billing guide asked for a credit card on 9 October 2026. No free allowance was found. The weights are free to download and need a CUDA GPU with about 9 GiB for BF16 weights.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Decisions API guide, the reference, the pricing page or llms.txt, read on 17 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/decisions/quickstart", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "inference.decision" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "multimodal", "openapi", "llms-txt", "usage-priced", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 260, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 67, "payments": 25, "reliability": 66, "schema": 89, "security": 68, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "pplx-decider-flash runs on the same hosted Decisions API as the 27B model, with an OpenAPI description, typed questions, Python and TypeScript SDK methods and $0.01 per million input tokens, and its weights are public under Apache-2.0. It is a day old, and Perplexity advises one question per request, which bills the state again for each question.", "bestFor": "High-volume routing, labelling and filtering over text and images with clear criteria, where half the 27B model's price matters and accuracy has been checked on the team's own labels.", "strengths": [ "$0.01 per million input tokens, half the 27B model's price, with free output and no per-request fee", "Apache-2.0 weights of 4.54 billion parameters that need a GPU with about 9 GiB for BF16 weights", "Same request and response as `pplx-decider-v1.2`, so switching is a change to `model`", "Highest Full score of the roughly 4B entrants on Decision Index 0.3.2 of 16 October 2026, 54.81 against 52.61 for the next", "Callable through `client.decisions.create` in the official Python and TypeScript SDKs" ], "weaknesses": [ "Released on 16 October 2026, with no service record of its own and no Decisions component on the status page", "Grouping questions costs up to 20.1 points on one benchmark by Perplexity's figures, so one question per request is the advised default", "On the Decision Index's Full score it trails the 27B v1.2 by 10.74 points, 54.81 against 65.55", "The `pplx-decider-flash-latest` alias can move to a newer model, and a retired name routes to its replacement with no notice period", "The FAQ and the Privacy and Security page disagree on whether API data is retained by default" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Bearer` with `model` set to `pplx-decider-flash-v1.2`. 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"title": "Clef vs Laya", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-clef-vs-convai-laya" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-clef-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "title": "Clef vs pplx-decider-flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-clef-vs-pplx-decider-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-decider.json", "title": "Laya vs Decider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-decider" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-decision-3.json", "title": "Laya vs Decision 3.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-decision-3" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-gliclass.json", "title": "Laya vs GLiClass", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-gliclass" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-granite-switch.json", "title": "Laya vs Granite Switch 4.1", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-granite-switch" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-jaredpalmer-kev.json", "title": "Laya vs Kev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-jaredpalmer-kev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-liquid-d1.json", "title": "Laya vs Liquid d1", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-liquid-d1" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-microsoft-decision-1.json", "title": "Laya vs Microsoft-Decision-1", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-microsoft-decision-1" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-nace-drex.json", "title": "Laya vs Drex 1.5", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-nace-drex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-openai-decisions-api.json", "title": "Laya vs OpenAI Decisions API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-openai-decisions-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-pplx-decider.json", "title": "Laya vs pplx-decider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-pplx-decider" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-scaledown.json", "title": "Laya vs ScaleDown", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-scaledown" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-sprag-spev.json", "title": "Laya vs SPEV", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-sprag-spev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-sqwish-kettei.json", "title": "Laya vs kettei", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-sqwish-kettei" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-strands-decider.json", "title": "Laya vs Strands Decider 2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-strands-decider" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-typesafe-jev.json", "title": "Laya vs Jev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-typesafe-jev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-vela.json", "title": "Laya vs Vela 2.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-vela" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "title": "Decider vs pplx-decider-flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decision-3-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "title": "Decision 3.0 vs pplx-decider-flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decision-3-vs-pplx-decider-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gliclass-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "title": "GLiClass vs pplx-decider-flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gliclass-vs-pplx-decider-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-switch-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "title": "Granite Switch 4.1 vs pplx-decider-flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-switch-vs-pplx-decider-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jaredpalmer-kev-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "title": "Kev vs pplx-decider-flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jaredpalmer-kev-vs-pplx-decider-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liquid-d1-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "title": "Liquid d1 vs pplx-decider-flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liquid-d1-vs-pplx-decider-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-decision-1-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "title": "Microsoft-Decision-1 vs pplx-decider-flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-decision-1-vs-pplx-decider-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nace-drex-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "title": "Drex 1.5 vs pplx-decider-flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nace-drex-vs-pplx-decider-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-decisions-api-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "title": "OpenAI Decisions API vs pplx-decider-flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-decisions-api-vs-pplx-decider-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-scaledown.json", "title": "pplx-decider-flash vs ScaleDown", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-scaledown" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-sprag-spev.json", "title": "pplx-decider-flash vs SPEV", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-sprag-spev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-sqwish-kettei.json", "title": "pplx-decider-flash vs kettei", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-sqwish-kettei" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-strands-decider.json", "title": "pplx-decider-flash vs Strands Decider 2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-strands-decider" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-typesafe-jev.json", "title": "pplx-decider-flash vs Jev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-typesafe-jev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-vela.json", "title": "pplx-decider-flash vs Vela 2.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-flash-vs-vela" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "title": "pplx-decider vs pplx-decider-flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-vs-pplx-decider-flash" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 1, "convai-laya": 65, "edge": "pplx-decider-flash", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "pplx-decider-flash": 66, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "convai-laya": 80, "edge": "pplx-decider-flash", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "pplx-decider-flash": 89, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "convai-laya": 80, "edge": "pplx-decider-flash", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "pplx-decider-flash": 81, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 11, "convai-laya": 57, "edge": "pplx-decider-flash", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "pplx-decider-flash": 68, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 35, "convai-laya": 60, "edge": "convai-laya", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "pplx-decider-flash": 25, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 16, "convai-laya": 83, "edge": "convai-laya", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "pplx-decider-flash": 67, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 9, "convai-laya": 62, "edge": "pplx-decider-flash", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "pplx-decider-flash": 71, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Laya scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider-flash's 67.9 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. pplx-decider-flash leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do decision models. pplx-decider-flash is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens.", "tutorials": [ { "title": "Route a support request locally with Laya", "tool": "convai-laya", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/convai-laya/" } ], "verdicts": { "convai-laya": "Apache-2.0 code and weights, installed with `pip install laya`, with Python 3.10 to 3.13 tested in CI. Base checkpoints score 0.362 and 0.352 on the maintainers' typed-decisions benchmark against a 0.318 random baseline, so it needs fine-tuning.", "pplx-decider-flash": "pplx-decider-flash runs on the same hosted Decisions API as the 27B model, with an OpenAPI description, typed questions, Python and TypeScript SDK methods and $0.01 per million input tokens, and its weights are public under Apache-2.0. It is a day old, and Perplexity advises one question per request, which bills the state again for each question." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-pplx-decider-flash", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-pplx-decider-flash.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-pplx-decider-flash.min.md" }, "markdown": "Laya scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider-flash's 67.9 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. pplx-decider-flash leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do decision models. pplx-decider-flash is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens.\n\n- Laya: grade B, 69.2/100, rank #208 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convai-laya.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/convai-laya.json\n- pplx-decider-flash: grade B, 67.9/100, rank #260 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider-flash.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pplx-decider-flash.json\n- Best decision models for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/decision-models/index.md\n- All 190 decisions comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decision-models/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Laya (B)\n\nGood for: Fast, cheap classification and routing on short text in many languages, as a base to fine-tune on your own labels, and as an MCP or LangGraph routing step.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 67\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Base checkpoints score 0.362 and 0.352 on the maintainers' typed-decisions benchmark against a 0.318 random baseline, so it needs fine-tuning\n\n### pplx-decider-flash (B)\n\nGood for: High-volume routing, labelling and filtering over text and images with clear criteria, where half the 27B model's price matters and accuracy has been checked on the team's own labels.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 80\n- Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 57\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 62\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Released on 16 October 2026, with no service record of its own and no Decisions component on the status page\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Laya | pplx-decider-flash | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 66 | pplx-decider-flash +1 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 89 | pplx-decider-flash +9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 81 | pplx-decider-flash +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 68 | pplx-decider-flash +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 25 | Laya +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 67 | Laya +16 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 71 | pplx-decider-flash +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.2 · B** | **67.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Laya | pplx-decider-flash |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Convai Innovations | Perplexity |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |\n| Price for decision models | free | free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 for the published weights and inference code. The hosted Decisions API is a proprietary service |\n| Tools exposed | 8 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Popularity | 29k stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3.3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Laya.** Apache-2.0 code and weights, installed with `pip install laya`, with Python 3.10 to 3.13 tested in CI. Base checkpoints score 0.362 and 0.352 on the maintainers' typed-decisions benchmark against a 0.318 random baseline, so it needs fine-tuning.\n\n**pplx-decider-flash.** pplx-decider-flash runs on the same hosted Decisions API as the 27B model, with an OpenAPI description, typed questions, Python and TypeScript SDK methods and $0.01 per million input tokens, and its weights are public under Apache-2.0. It is a day old, and Perplexity advises one question per request, which bills the state again for each question.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Laya\n\n1. Set `LAYA_API_KEY` before starting `laya-serve`. It listens on every interface by default\n2. Gate on `answer_confidence`, not `confidence`, which measures entropy and doesn't match Jev's field\n3. Shortlist choice questions with more than about 20 options using `predict_shortlist` or the `laya_shortlist` tool\n4. Use semantic or opaque labels such as `A` and `B`, not `yes` and `no`, in choice questions. The checkpoints can follow the label text\n5. Pass `model=\"multilingual\"` and `max_len=8192` for long documents. The English checkpoint stops at 512 tokens\n\n### pplx-decider-flash\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer` with `model` set to `pplx-decider-flash-v1.2`. A key in `x-api-key` returns 401.\n2. Send one question per request by default. Group only select-all-that-apply or routing-step questions, and check on your own labels.\n3. Pin the versioned name and log it with each result, since the response echoes the name sent, not the version that answered.\n4. Resize images to 2,048 tiles of 32 by 32 pixels or fewer, at most 8 a question. Larger images end in a 504 after about a minute.\n5. Compare it with `pplx-decider-v1.2` on a labelled sample at your thresholds before choosing it.\n\n## Tutorials\n\n- [Route a support request locally with Laya](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/convai-laya/), for Laya\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Laya or pplx-decider-flash?\n\nLaya scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider-flash's 67.9 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. pplx-decider-flash leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Which is cheaper for decision models, Laya or pplx-decider-flash?\n\nLaya, at free against free for pplx-decider-flash. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Laya and pplx-decider-flash need an API key?\n\nLaya needs no key. pplx-decider-flash needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Laya and pplx-decider-flash without installing anything?\n\nLaya runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. pplx-decider-flash has a hosted endpoint at https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions.\n\n### Are Laya and pplx-decider-flash open source?\n\nLaya is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for pplx-decider-flash.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/convai-laya-vs-pplx-decider-flash.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"convai-laya\", \"b\": \"pplx-decider-flash\"}`. 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