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It answers typed yes or no, choice and score questions with probabilities, and runs locally from the `decider-ai` Python package.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decider", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decider.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decider.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/decider.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Mapika/decider", "license": "Apache-2.0 (code and weights)", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "decider-ai" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account. `decider.serve` has no authentication option. `scripts/serve.sh` binds to 127.0.0.1 since 1.7.1, and `DECIDER_HOST=0.0.0.0` opens it to the network. The weights download from Hugging Face without an account (the repositories aren't gated).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and open source, with nothing to buy. You pay for your own hardware. The README puts the 2B at about 4 GB of GPU memory, the 4B at 8.4 GB and the 35B at 65 GB in bf16, with GGUF files of 1.3 GB and 2.7 GB for CPU (https://github.com/Mapika/decider). No hosted API was found.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402. Decider is software you run, and its server has no payment route (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1100, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 2680, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/Mapika/decider#readme", "capabilities": [ "inference.decision" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-source", "open-weights", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "python" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 193, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 60, "reliability": 90, "schema": 78, "security": 38, "transparency": 46 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An Apache-2.0 decision model family with a dated changelog, passing CI, 21 package releases since 22 September 2026 and model cards that list measured regressions. One person maintains it, the local server has no authentication option, states over 32,768 tokens are cut without an error, and no security policy is published.", "bestFor": "Local classification, routing, triage and checks where a team wants open weights in several sizes and a Jev-shaped route.", "strengths": [ "Apache-2.0 code and weights, with the training code, data builders and per-version measurements in the repository", "Sizes from 0.8B to 35B parameters, with GGUF files for CPU and builds for CUDA, Apple silicon and vLLM", "`POST /v1/systemone` follows TypeSafe's wire format, and the README says TypeSafe's SDKs work with `TYPESAFE_BASE_URL` set to the local server", "Dated changelog entries for all 21 `decider-ai` releases from 1.0.0 (22 September 2026) to 1.9.0 (7 October 2026)", "Size limits return 413, overload 503 and invalid questions 422, each with a message documented in `docs/SERVING.md`" ], "weaknesses": [ "The local server has no authentication option. It binds to 127.0.0.1 since 1.7.1", "States over 32,768 tokens are truncated (`DECIDER_MAX_STATE_TOKENS`) without an error", "No SECURITY.md, disclosure policy or security contact was found in the repository", "One maintainer wrote 95 of 98 commits, and the project is three weeks old", "The README says calibration on hard items is weak, the models are English only, and one pass can't do multi-step arithmetic", "No hosted API, and the HTTP server doesn't serve the GGUF files" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pin weights by Hub tag (`v10`, `v2`) when results must repeat. The `main` branch of each model repository changes with new versions", "Read `x_p_max` for the top probability. Since 1.3.0 `confidence` on choice and score answers follows TypeSafe's rescaled definition, not the top probability", "Keep the server on 127.0.0.1 or put an authenticating proxy in front. It has no key option", "Count state tokens before sending. Over 32,768 the state is cut silently, and `/decide` caps context at 1,536 tokens", "Split multi-step arithmetic or multi-hop judgements into several questions, and don't write long rules into a question. The README says both fail" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 60, "reliability": 90, "schema": 78, "security": 38, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 27 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install decider-ai" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.decision", "tool": "https://letme.dev/decider" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "github.com/Mapika", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/Mapika/decider/blob/main/docs/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "An individual's open-source project under Apache-2.0. The pyproject and the README citation name Mark Marosi as author, and no company is named.", "No vendor domain. The code is at github.com/Mapika/decider and the weights at huggingface.co/Mapika, so the domain line names the GitHub account and scores no domain age.", "Software you run, so there's no hosted endpoint, service terms or privacy policy. The author publishes none, and the Apache-2.0 licence stands in for terms.", "The changelog is `docs/CHANGELOG.md`, with a dated entry for each package release and model update. Release tags v1.0.2 to v1.9.0 match the PyPI versions." ], "score": 27 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decider.json", "live": { "slug": "decider", "versions": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "decider-ai", "version": "1.9.0", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:43:42.683859763Z" } ], "githubStars": 1157, "pypiWeekly": 2054, "domain": { "domain": "github.com/mapika", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:26:29.542802311Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mapika/decider/main/docs/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:08:56.799242493Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "533fad35e7c7" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T23:08:56.799242493Z" } }, "answer": "Decider scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider-flash's 67.9 (B), and leads in 3 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. It answers yes or no, choice and score questions about text, JSON and images with probabilities, through the hosted Decisions API or open weights.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider-flash", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider-flash.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider-flash.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pplx-decider-flash.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/pplx-decider-flash-v1.2", "license": "Apache-2.0 for the published weights and inference code. The hosted Decisions API is a proprietary service", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Hosted API. Bearer Perplexity API key in the `Authorization` header, the same key as for the 27B model. A key sent in `x-api-key` returns 401. 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`. A key in `x-api-key` returns 401.", "Send one question per request by default. Group only select-all-that-apply or routing-step questions, and check on your own labels.", "Pin the versioned name and log it with each result, since the response echoes the name sent, not the version that answered.", "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.", "Compare it with `pplx-decider-v1.2` on a labelled sample at your thresholds before choosing it." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 67, "payments": 25, "reliability": 66, "schema": 89, "security": 68, "transparency": 60 }, "provenanceScore": 82 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $PERPLEXITY_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"pplx-decider-flash-v1.2\",\"state\":\"The headphones sound great, but the battery stopped charging after two weeks.\",\"questions\":{\"defect\":{\"type\":\"noul\",\"instructions\":\"Does the review report a product defect?\"}}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.decision", "tool": "https://letme.dev/pplx-decider-flash" }, "sameCompany": [ "perplexity-space", "pplx-decider" ], "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Decision input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.01, "note": "`pplx-decider-flash-v1.2` and its alias. State, questions and images count as input." }, { "item": "Decision output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0, "note": "Output tokens are free. No per-request fee." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Perplexity AI, Inc.", "domain": "perplexity.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/perplexity-api-terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-notice", "statusPage": "https://status.perplexity.com/", "changelog": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The Perplexity API Terms of Service (last updated 23 January 2026) and the Data Processing Addendum (13 August 2026) name Perplexity AI, Inc. and California law. www.perplexity.ai served both pages on 17 October 2026, after answering with a bot check (403) on 9 October.", "The API terms name the Sonar and Agentic Research APIs and do not name the Decisions API. The privacy notice (8 July 2026) says it does not apply to data collected through the API, which the DPA governs.", "www.perplexity.ai/.well-known/security.txt is valid until 31 December 2027 and links a security page that names a public vulnerability disclosure programme and a private bug bounty on Bugcrowd.", "The status page lists Website, App, Computer and API components, with no Decisions component.", "The changelog dates entries by month. The three Decisions entries are under October 2026.", "Domain registration was not checked." ], "score": 82 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider-flash.json", "live": { "slug": "pplx-decider-flash", "probe": { "target": "https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:52.117417627Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 238, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 160, "p95ms24h": 327, "samples24h": 29, "samples30d": 29, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 26, "ok": 26 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.perplexity.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T00:09:03.642914547Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:01:40.882974894Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-17T23:01:40.882974894Z", "fingerprint": "f5be3184443a" }, { "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-notice", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:18:58.934806121Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-15T22:12:37.636317867Z", "fingerprint": "0f719c131ead" }, { "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/perplexity-api-terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:18:56.562928586Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "97ed3bd70fcf" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:52.117417627Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Mark Marosi (Mapika)", "b": "Perplexity", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "free", "b": "free", "name": "Price for decision models" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (code and weights)", "b": "Apache-2.0 for the published weights and inference code. The hosted Decisions API is a proprietary service", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-10-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "1.1k stars, 2.7k PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.3/5 (4)", "b": "3.3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Decider scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider-flash's 67.9 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. pplx-decider-flash leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Decider or pplx-decider-flash?" }, { "answer": "Decider, at free against free for pplx-decider-flash. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for decision models, Decider or pplx-decider-flash?" }, { "answer": "Decider needs no key. pplx-decider-flash needs an API key.", "question": "Do Decider and pplx-decider-flash need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Decider. pplx-decider-flash has a hosted endpoint at https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions.", "question": "Can an agent call Decider and pplx-decider-flash without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Decider is open source (Apache-2.0 (code and weights)). No open-source release is listed for pplx-decider-flash.", "question": "Are Decider and pplx-decider-flash open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 90 against 66", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 67" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Local classification, routing, triage and checks where a team wants open weights in several sizes and a Jev-shaped route.", "slug": "decider", "watchFor": "The local server has no authentication option. It binds to 127.0.0.1 since 1.7.1" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 78", "Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 38", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 46" ], "also": [ "Cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "pplx-decider-flash", "watchFor": "Released on 16 October 2026, with no service record of its own and no Decisions component on the status page" } ], "job": { "capability": "inference.decision", "name": "Decision models" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/celeris-1-decision-vs-decider.json", "title": "Celeris-1 Decision vs Decider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/celeris-1-decision-vs-decider" }, { "json": 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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/decider-vs-pplx-decider-flash", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider-flash.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider-flash.min.md" }, "markdown": "Decider scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider-flash's 67.9 (B), and leads in 3 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- Decider: grade B, 69.5/100, rank #193 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decider.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/decider.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### Decider (B)\n\nGood for: Local classification, routing, triage and checks where a team wants open weights in several sizes and a Jev-shaped route.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 66\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 67\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The local server has no authentication option. It binds to 127.0.0.1 since 1.7.1\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 78\n- Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 38\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 46\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\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 | Decider | pplx-decider-flash | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 66 | Decider +24 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 89 | pplx-decider-flash +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 81 | pplx-decider-flash +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 68 | pplx-decider-flash +30 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 25 | Decider +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 67 | Decider +20 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 71 | pplx-decider-flash +25 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.5 · B** | **67.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Decider | pplx-decider-flash |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Mark Marosi (Mapika) | Perplexity |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions` |\n| Transports | HTTP | 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 (code and weights) | Apache-2.0 for the published weights and inference code. The hosted Decisions API is a proprietary service |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 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 | 1.1k stars, 2.7k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Decider.** An Apache-2.0 decision model family with a dated changelog, passing CI, 21 package releases since 22 September 2026 and model cards that list measured regressions. One person maintains it, the local server has no authentication option, states over 32,768 tokens are cut without an error, and no security policy is published.\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### Decider\n\n1. Pin weights by Hub tag (`v10`, `v2`) when results must repeat. The `main` branch of each model repository changes with new versions\n2. Read `x_p_max` for the top probability. Since 1.3.0 `confidence` on choice and score answers follows TypeSafe's rescaled definition, not the top probability\n3. Keep the server on 127.0.0.1 or put an authenticating proxy in front. It has no key option\n4. Count state tokens before sending. Over 32,768 the state is cut silently, and `/decide` caps context at 1,536 tokens\n5. Split multi-step arithmetic or multi-hop judgements into several questions, and don't write long rules into a question. The README says both fail\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- [Classify a message locally with Decider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tutorials/decider/), for Decider\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Decider or pplx-decider-flash?\n\nDecider scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider-flash's 67.9 (B), and leads in 3 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, Decider or pplx-decider-flash?\n\nDecider, at free against free for pplx-decider-flash. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Decider and pplx-decider-flash need an API key?\n\nDecider needs no key. pplx-decider-flash needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Decider and pplx-decider-flash without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Decider. pplx-decider-flash has a hosted endpoint at https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions.\n\n### Are Decider and pplx-decider-flash open source?\n\nDecider is open source (Apache-2.0 (code and weights)). 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/decider-vs-pplx-decider-flash.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider-flash.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"decider\", \"b\": \"pplx-decider-flash\"}`. 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