# Decider vs Strands Decider 2B (slim)

> Decider scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Strands Decider 2B's 61.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Strands Decider 2B leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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Decider scores 69.5 (B) on agent readiness against Strands Decider 2B's 61.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Strands Decider 2B leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do inference decision.

- Decider: B 69.5, rank #172 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decider.min.md
- Strands Decider 2B: C 61.3, rank #427 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-decider.min.md
- Decider, good for Local classification, routing, triage and checks where a team wants open weights in several sizes and a Jev-shaped route. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 50; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 69; Maintenance & community, 87 against 79.
- 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. Ahead on Security & auth, 49 against 38; Transparency & trust, 54 against 46.

| Category | Decider | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 38 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 46 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Decider | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mark Marosi (Mapika) | Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (code and weights) | Apache-2.0 (code, LoRA adapter, readout head, training recipe and data inventory), on the Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5-2B-Base |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-05 |
| Popularity | 1.1k stars, 2.7k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (1) |