# Kev vs Strands Decider 2B (slim)

> Kev scores 67.4 (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 transparency & trust. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Kev scores 67.4 (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 transparency & trust. Both do inference decision.

- Kev: B 67.4, rank #140 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jaredpalmer-kev.min.md
- Strands Decider 2B: C 61.3, rank #235 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-decider.min.md
- Kev, good for Self-hosted classification, routing, triage and rubric scoring where a probability matters, especially for teams already calling Jev who want the same API on their own hardware. Ahead on Reliability, 73 against 50; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 69.
- 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 Transparency & trust, 54 against 49.

| Category | Kev | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 73 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 49 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 49 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Kev | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Jared Palmer | Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (code, adapters and weights) | Apache-2.0 (code, LoRA adapter, readout head, training recipe and data inventory), on the Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5-2B-Base |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-05 |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 2/5 (1) |