# Decision 3.0 vs ScaleDown (slim)

> Decision 3.0 scores 63.1 (B) to ScaleDown's 48.6 (D) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Decision 3.0 scores 63.1 (B) on agent readiness against ScaleDown's 48.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScaleDown leads on transparency & trust. Both do decision models.

- Decision 3.0: B 63.1, rank #435 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decision-3.min.md
- ScaleDown: D 48.6, rank #873 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scaledown.min.md
- Decision 3.0, good for Self-hosted typed decisions over screenshots, documents and short video as well as text, where open weights matter. Ahead on Reliability, 58 against 20; Security & auth, 56 against 48; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Maintenance & community, 82 against 56. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- ScaleDown, good for Cheap, high-volume labelling, routing and yes or no checks where a probability is more useful than prose, and for pulling described fields with offsets from text, images or PDFs. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 54 against 45. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Decision 3.0 | ScaleDown |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 58 | 20 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 56 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 45 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Decision 3.0 | ScaleDown |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | vLLM Semantic Router Team | Carbon ScaleDown, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.scaledown.xyz` |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 for the weights and the bundled runtime, built on Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.8 bases | Proprietary hosted models under ScaleDown's Terms of Service. The langchain-scaledown integration is MIT |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 0 stars |