# Decision 3.0 vs Strands Decider 2B (slim)

> Decision 3.0 scores 63.1 (B) to Strands Decider 2B's 61.3 (C) 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 Strands Decider 2B's 61.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Strands Decider 2B leads on schema & documentation and transparency & trust. Both do decision models.

- Decision 3.0: B 63.1, rank #413 of 965 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decision-3.min.md
- Strands Decider 2B: C 61.3, rank #477 of 965 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-decider.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 50; Security & auth, 56 against 49.
- 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 Schema & documentation, 76 against 70; Transparency & trust, 54 against 45.

| Category | Decision 3.0 | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 58 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 45 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Decision 3.0 | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | vLLM Semantic Router Team | Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 for the weights and the bundled runtime, built on Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.8 bases | Apache-2.0 (code, LoRA adapter, readout head, training recipe and data inventory), on the Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5-2B-Base |
| Last release | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-05 |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (1) |