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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": 181, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "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": 0, "avgRating": 0, "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": "2026-10-09T16:48:48.070555011Z" } ], "githubStars": 1113, "pypiWeekly": 2543, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mapika/decider/main/docs/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:44:31.234901323Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "533fad35e7c7" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T18:44:31.234901323Z" } }, "answer": "Decider scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. pplx-decider leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "pplx-decider", "name": "pplx-decider", "vendor": "Perplexity", "vendorUrl": "https://www.perplexity.ai/", "kind": "model", "category": "decision-models", "summary": "pplx-decider is Perplexity's multimodal decision model, a fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B. It answers yes or no, choice and score questions about text, JSON and images with probabilities, through Perplexity's hosted Decisions API or from open weights on Hugging Face.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pplx-decider.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/pplx-decider-v1.1-27b", "license": "Apache-2.0 for the published weights. 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. 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`. No per-key scopes were found. Weights. The Hugging Face repository is public and not gated, and the bundled server takes an optional `AUTOJEV_API_KEY`.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$0.02 per million input tokens on Perplexity's Decisions API for both `pplx-decider-v1.1-27b` and `pplx-decider-v1-27b`. Output tokens are free and there is no per-request fee. The changelog says v1 launched at $0.04. Usage draws on prepaid credits, and the billing guide asks for a credit card. No free allowance was found. The weights are free to download and need a GPU with about 49 GiB for 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 9 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/decisions/quickstart", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/openapi-gateway-preview.json", "capabilities": [ "inference.decision" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "multimodal", "openapi", "llms-txt", "usage-priced", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 417, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 62, "payments": 25, "reliability": 61, "schema": 90, "security": 61, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The hosted Decisions API has an OpenAPI description, typed questions, documented limits and a published price of $0.02 per million input tokens, and the v1.1 weights are public under Apache-2.0. The API is days old, the official Python SDK has no method for it, and the governing terms and privacy notice could not be read on 9 October 2026.", "bestFor": "High-volume classification, routing and rubric scoring over text and images where a team wants a low hosted price and the option to run the same weights itself.", "strengths": [ "Weights for v1.1 and v1 are public on Hugging Face under Apache-2.0, with training code, config and a data manifest in the repository", "One request takes up to 128 questions about one `state`, mixing `noul`, `choice` and `score`, with under 262,144 input tokens", "$0.02 per million input tokens with free output and no per-request fee, published without a login", "OpenAPI 3.0.3 description, llms.txt and Markdown pages for the guide and reference", "Rate limit stated as 10 requests a second per organisation, with `Retry-After` on 429 and `x-ratelimit-*` headers" ], "weaknesses": [ "The Decisions API was released in October 2026, so its incident record is days long, and Perplexity's FAQ says it gives no uptime guarantee", "The official Python SDK at 0.43.8 has no Decisions method. The guide uses a plain HTTP client", "An image over 2,048 tiles is not rejected. The request waits about a minute and returns 504", "The zero-retention statement on the Privacy and Security page names only the Chat Completions API", "The bundled server in the weights repository caps a question at 8,192 tokens and reads a `playground.html` the v1.1 repository does not include" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Bearer`. A key in `x-api-key` returns 401 on this endpoint.", "Set `model` on every request. A missing or unknown model returns 400, and the guide shows a `-latest` name rejected.", "Resize images to 2,048 tiles of 32 by 32 pixels or fewer before sending. Larger images end in a 504 after about a minute.", "Check the HTTP status before parsing an error. 404 and 405 have empty bodies, 504 can be HTML, and `error.code` changes type.", "For the weights, use the repository's `autojev` code. The card says default causal inference does not reproduce the evaluated setup." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 62, "payments": 25, "reliability": 61, "schema": 90, "security": 61, "transparency": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 49 }, "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-v1.1-27b\",\"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" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Decision input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.02, "note": "Same price for v1.1 and v1. 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": "", "domain": "perplexity.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/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": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The terms of service and privacy notice linked here are the two the status page links. www.perplexity.ai answered our researcher with a bot check (403) on 9 October 2026, so neither was read.", "No legal entity was established. The pages read name the vendor only as Perplexity, and the Hugging Face organisation is marked as a verified company.", "The status page lists Website, App, Computer and API components, with no Decisions component.", "The changelog dates entries by month. The two Decisions entries are under October 2026.", "docs.perplexity.ai answered 404 for the well-known security.txt. The main site was not readable, so security.txt is unknown. Domain registration was not checked." ], "score": 49 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider.json", "live": { "slug": "pplx-decider", "probe": { "target": "https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:21.120432319Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 168, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 220, "p95ms24h": 1251, "samples24h": 107, "samples30d": 107, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.perplexity.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:06:24.469078521Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:00.707248662Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ab545eed1660" }, { "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-notice", "kind": "privacy", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:00.205668839Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:02.2245445Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:21.120432319Z" } }, "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. 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These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for decision models, Decider or pplx-decider?" }, { "answer": "Decider needs no key. pplx-decider needs an API key.", "question": "Do Decider and pplx-decider need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Decider. pplx-decider has a hosted endpoint at https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions.", "question": "Can an agent call Decider and pplx-decider without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Decider is open source (Apache-2.0 (code and weights)). No open-source release is listed for pplx-decider.", "question": "Are Decider and pplx-decider open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 90 against 61", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 62" ], "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. 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agent readiness against pplx-decider's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. pplx-decider leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do decision models. pplx-decider is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens.", "verdicts": { "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.", "pplx-decider": "The hosted Decisions API has an OpenAPI description, typed questions, documented limits and a published price of $0.02 per million input tokens, and the v1.1 weights are public under Apache-2.0. The API is days old, the official Python SDK has no method for it, and the governing terms and privacy notice could not be read on 9 October 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider.min.md" }, "markdown": "Decider scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. pplx-decider leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do decision models. pplx-decider is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens.\n\n- Decider: grade B, 69.5/100, rank #181 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decider.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/decider.json\n- pplx-decider: grade B, 62.9/100, rank #417 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pplx-decider.json\n- Best decision models for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/decision-models/index.md\n- All 66 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 61\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 62\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 (B)\n\nGood for: High-volume classification, routing and rubric scoring over text and images where a team wants a low hosted price and the option to run the same weights itself.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 78\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 38\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 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: The Decisions API was released in October 2026, so its incident record is days long, and Perplexity's FAQ says it gives no uptime guarantee\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Decider | pplx-decider | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 90 | 61 | Decider +29 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 90 | pplx-decider +12 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 76 | Decider +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 61 | pplx-decider +23 |\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 | 62 | Decider +25 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 52 | pplx-decider +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.5 · B** | **62.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Decider | pplx-decider |\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. 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 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 1.1k stars, 2.7k PyPI/wk | none |\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.** The hosted Decisions API has an OpenAPI description, typed questions, documented limits and a published price of $0.02 per million input tokens, and the v1.1 weights are public under Apache-2.0. The API is days old, the official Python SDK has no method for it, and the governing terms and privacy notice could not be read on 9 October 2026.\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\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer`. A key in `x-api-key` returns 401 on this endpoint.\n2. Set `model` on every request. A missing or unknown model returns 400, and the guide shows a `-latest` name rejected.\n3. Resize images to 2,048 tiles of 32 by 32 pixels or fewer before sending. Larger images end in a 504 after about a minute.\n4. Check the HTTP status before parsing an error. 404 and 405 have empty bodies, 504 can be HTML, and `error.code` changes type.\n5. For the weights, use the repository's `autojev` code. The card says default causal inference does not reproduce the evaluated setup.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Decider or pplx-decider?\n\nDecider scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. pplx-decider leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Which is cheaper for decision models, Decider or pplx-decider?\n\nDecider, at free against free for pplx-decider. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Decider and pplx-decider need an API key?\n\nDecider needs no key. pplx-decider needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Decider and pplx-decider without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Decider. pplx-decider has a hosted endpoint at https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions.\n\n### Are Decider and pplx-decider open source?\n\nDecider is open source (Apache-2.0 (code and weights)). No open-source release is listed for pplx-decider.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/decider-vs-pplx-decider.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"decider\", \"b\": \"pplx-decider\"}`. 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