# Laya vs Strands Decider 2B (slim)

> Laya scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against Strands Decider 2B's 61.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Laya scores 69.2 (B) on agent readiness against Strands Decider 2B's 61.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do inference decision.

- Laya: B 69.2, rank #114 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convai-laya.min.md
- Strands Decider 2B: C 61.3, rank #235 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-decider.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 Reliability, 65 against 50; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 69; Security & auth, 57 against 49; Transparency & trust, 62 against 54. Also Runs on your own machine.
- 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.

| Category | Laya | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Laya | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Convai Innovations | Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 (code, LoRA adapter, readout head, training recipe and data inventory), on the Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5-2B-Base |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-05 |
| Popularity | 29k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 2/5 (1) |