# Laya vs pplx-decider-flash (slim)

> Laya scores 69.2 (B) to pplx-decider-flash's 67.9 (B) for decision models. pplx-decider-flash is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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 & documentation, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do decision models. pplx-decider-flash is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens.

- Laya: B 69.2, rank #208 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convai-laya.min.md
- pplx-decider-flash: B 67.9, rank #260 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider-flash.min.md
- Laya, good 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. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 25; Maintenance & community, 83 against 67. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- pplx-decider-flash, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 89 against 80; Security & auth, 68 against 57; Transparency & trust, 71 against 62. Also Cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.5 out of 5.

| Category | Laya | pplx-decider-flash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 66 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 81 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 67 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 71 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Laya | pplx-decider-flash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Convai Innovations | Perplexity |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 for the published weights and inference code. The hosted Decisions API is a proprietary service |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 29k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3.3/5 (4) |