# Liquid d1 vs Strands Decider 2B (slim)

> Strands Decider 2B scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Liquid d1's 43.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liquid-d1-vs-strands-decider.md (~2,300 tokens) · this version ~780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liquid-d1-vs-strands-decider.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/liquid-d1-vs-strands-decider
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

Strands Decider 2B scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Liquid d1's 43.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do inference decision.

- Liquid d1: E 43.5, rank #582 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/liquid-d1.min.md
- Strands Decider 2B: C 61.3, rank #327 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-decider.min.md
- Liquid d1, good for Classification, routing, yes or no gates and rubric scoring over text and images at a low per-token price, or on your own hardware with d1-3B where data can't leave. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- 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 Reliability, 50 against 21; Schema & documentation, 76 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 63; Security & auth, 49 against 35; Payments & pricing, 60 against 27; Maintenance & community, 79 against 60. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Liquid d1 | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 21 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 59 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 35 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 27 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Liquid d1 | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Liquid AI | Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.liquid.ai/decisions/v1/systemone` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | The hosted d1 model is proprietary under Liquid AI's terms of service. The d1-3B and d1-omni-600M weights and model code are under the LFM Open Licence v1.0, which is based on Apache-2.0 and conditions commercial use on annual revenue under $10 million. Training code and data aren't published | Apache-2.0 (code, LoRA adapter, readout head, training recipe and data inventory), on the Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5-2B-Base |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-30 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-30 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (1) |