# Granite Switch 4.1 vs pplx-decider (slim)

> pplx-decider scores 68.1 (B) to Granite Switch 4.1's 59.4 (C) for decision models. pplx-decider is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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pplx-decider scores 68.1 (B) on agent readiness against Granite Switch 4.1's 59.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Granite Switch 4.1 leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do decision models. pplx-decider is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens.

- Granite Switch 4.1: C 59.4, rank #601 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch.min.md
- pplx-decider: B 68.1, rank #249 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider.min.md
- Granite Switch 4.1, good for A team with a GPU that wants chat, routing decisions, a safety gate and English transcription from one self-hosted endpoint under a permissive licence. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 25; Maintenance & community, 81 against 65. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- pplx-decider, good for High-volume classification, routing and rubric scoring over text and images where a team wants a low hosted price, several related questions per item and the option to run the same weights itself. Ahead on Reliability, 66 against 46; Schema & documentation, 89 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 83 against 66; Security & auth, 68 against 54. Also Cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5.

| Category | Granite Switch 4.1 | pplx-decider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 46 | 66 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 65 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 71 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Granite Switch 4.1 | pplx-decider |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | IBM | Perplexity |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions` |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 for the weights, the adapters and the repository | Apache-2.0 for the published weights and inference code. The hosted Decisions API is a proprietary service |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |