# pplx-decider-flash vs kettei (slim)

> pplx-decider-flash scores 67.9 (B) to kettei's 58.3 (C) 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 kettei's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. kettei leads on agent ergonomics and 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
- kettei: C 58.3, rank #640 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sqwish-kettei.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 30; Maintenance & community, 67 against 57; Transparency & trust, 71 against 51.
- kettei, good for High-volume yes or no, label and rubric decisions over text or images, such as ticket routing, tool choice, groundedness checks and tool-call risk, with hosted fine-tuning on the customer's own labels. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 89 against 81; Payments & pricing, 35 against 25. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 3.3 out of 5.

| Category | pplx-decider-flash | kettei |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 81 | 89 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 67 | 57 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | pplx-decider-flash | kettei |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Perplexity | Sqwish Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions` | `https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide` |
| 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 and API. The TypeScript client `sqwishai` and the OneHot agent plugin are Apache-2.0. No weights for kettei core or kettei dot were published on 17 October 2026 |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read |  |
| Popularity | none | 1.2k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 3.8/5 (4) |