# pplx-decider-flash vs ScaleDown (slim)

> pplx-decider-flash scores 67.9 (B) to ScaleDown's 48.6 (D) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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pplx-decider-flash scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against ScaleDown's 48.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ScaleDown leads on payments & pricing. Both do decision models.

- pplx-decider-flash: B 67.9, rank #260 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider-flash.min.md
- ScaleDown: D 48.6, rank #917 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scaledown.min.md
- pplx-decider-flash, good for High-volume routing, labelling and filtering over text and images with clear criteria, where half the 27B model's price matters and accuracy has been checked on the team's own labels. Ahead on Reliability, 66 against 20; Schema & documentation, 89 against 69; Agent ergonomics, 81 against 76; Security & auth, 68 against 48; Maintenance & community, 67 against 56; Transparency & trust, 71 against 54.
- ScaleDown, good for Cheap, high-volume labelling, routing and yes or no checks where a probability is more useful than prose, and for pulling described fields with offsets from text, images or PDFs. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 25. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | pplx-decider-flash | ScaleDown |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 20 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 81 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 67 | 56 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | pplx-decider-flash | ScaleDown |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Perplexity | Carbon ScaleDown, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions` | `https://api.scaledown.xyz` |
| Price for decision models | free | not published |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 for the published weights and inference code. The hosted Decisions API is a proprietary service | Proprietary hosted models under ScaleDown's Terms of Service. The langchain-scaledown integration is MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-14 |
| Terms last updated |  | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 0 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | none |