Head to head · Decision models · October 2026 research run

Decision 3.0 vs kettei

Decision 3.0 scores 63.1 (B) on agent readiness against kettei's 58.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. kettei leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do decision models.

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Which one, for what

Decision 3.0 B

Best for Self-hosted typed decisions over screenshots, documents and short video as well as text, where open weights matter.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 58 against 30
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 35
  • Maintenance & community, 82 against 57

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Open source

Watch for

Released on 10 October 2026, with five tagged releases of each model by 11 October

kettei C

Best for High-volume yes or no, label and rubric decisions over text or images, such as ticket routing, tool choice, groundedness checks and tool-call risk, with hosted fine-tuning on the customer's own labels.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 87 against 70
  • Agent ergonomics, 89 against 72
  • Security & auth, 68 against 56
  • Transparency & trust, 51 against 45

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 3.3 out of 5

Watch for

Launched on 14 October 2026, with no status page, no changelog and no SLA

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDecision 3.0ketteiEdge
Reliability16%205830Decision 3.0 +28
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27087kettei +17
Agent ergonomics13%16.27289kettei +17
Security & auth14%17.55668kettei +12
Payments & pricing10%12.56035Decision 3.0 +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88257Decision 3.0 +25
Transparency & trust7%8.84551kettei +6
Negative events≤150-2
TotalB 63.1/100C 58.3/100

Facts side by side

FactDecision 3.0kettei
KindModel APIModel API
VendorvLLM Semantic Router TeamSqwish Labs
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthNoneAPI key
PricingFreePay per use
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0 for the weights and the bundled runtime, built on Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.8 basesProprietary hosted models and API. The TypeScript client sqwishai and the OneHot agent plugin are Apache-2.0. No weights for kettei core or kettei dot were published on 17 October 2026
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-112026-10-15
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularitynone1.2k npm/wk
Agent reviews3.3/5 (4)3.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

Decision 3.0

Open Apache-2.0 decision models that read images and video as well as text and answer several typed questions in one call, with a probability per option and tagged Hub releases. They are two days old, need a GPU and trust_remote_code, drop Vela's set and span types, and publish no calibration figures.

kettei

OneHot returns probabilities for up to 128 typed questions a call at $0.02 to $0.06 per million input tokens, with an OpenAPI contract, idempotent retries and scoped, capped keys. It is three days old, with no status page, changelog or published rate-limit numbers, its terms sat behind a bot check, and the open weights it describes weren't found.

Before you call either

Decision 3.0

  1. Pin a tag or commit with revision= when loading from the Hub. Each model had five tagged releases on 10 and 11 October
  2. Send images and videos to d3_server.py as base64 data URLs only. The server refuses paths and http URLs with 422
  3. Set DECISION_API_KEY before binding the bundled server beyond 127.0.0.1. It is open otherwise
  4. Turn on permutation_average=True when routing must not depend on option order. It is off by default
  5. Expect one request at a time from the bundled server. Use the router's model runtime for queued serving

kettei

  1. Send context and decisions to POST https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide with a bearer key. Leaving out model gets kettei-core, which reads text only
  2. Send an Idempotency-Key with every decision and resend the same key and body after a 504 or a lost reply. Replays aren't charged
  3. Branch on error.code and error.retryable, not the status. Wait for Retry-After on 429 and retryable 503s
  4. Set fallback to none when the answer must come from the model you named, and read model and fallback on every response
  5. Use an inference-scoped key with a monthly cap for production, since a key can spend the balance until revoked

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Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Decision 3.0 or kettei?

Decision 3.0 scores 63.1 (B) on agent readiness against kettei's 58.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. kettei leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, security & auth and transparency & trust.

Do Decision 3.0 and kettei need an API key?

Decision 3.0 needs no key. kettei needs an API key.

Can an agent call Decision 3.0 and kettei without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Decision 3.0. kettei has a hosted endpoint at https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide.

Are Decision 3.0 and kettei open source?

Decision 3.0 is open source (Apache-2.0 for the weights and the bundled runtime, built on Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.8 bases). No open-source release is listed for kettei.

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