# Granite Switch 4.1 vs Strands Decider 2B (slim)

> Strands Decider 2B scores 61.3 (C) to Granite Switch 4.1's 59.4 (C) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Strands Decider 2B scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Granite Switch 4.1's 59.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Granite Switch 4.1 leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do decision models.

- Granite Switch 4.1: C 59.4, rank #601 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch.min.md
- Strands Decider 2B: C 61.3, rank #522 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-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 Security & auth, 54 against 49; Transparency & trust, 74 against 54.
- 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 55.

| Category | Granite Switch 4.1 | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 46 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Granite Switch 4.1 | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | IBM | Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 for the weights, the adapters and the repository | Apache-2.0 (code, LoRA adapter, readout head, training recipe and data inventory), on the Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5-2B-Base |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-05 |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 2/5 (1) |