# pplx-decider-flash vs Strands Decider 2B (slim)

> pplx-decider-flash scores 67.9 (B) to Strands Decider 2B's 61.3 (C) for decision models. pplx-decider-flash is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens. 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 Strands Decider 2B's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Strands Decider 2B leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do decision models. pplx-decider-flash is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens.

- pplx-decider-flash: B 67.9, rank #260 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider-flash.min.md
- Strands Decider 2B: C 61.3, rank #522 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-decider.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 50; Schema & documentation, 89 against 76; Agent ergonomics, 81 against 69; Security & auth, 68 against 49; Transparency & trust, 71 against 54. Also Cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens; 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 Payments & pricing, 60 against 25; Maintenance & community, 79 against 67. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | pplx-decider-flash | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 81 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 67 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | pplx-decider-flash | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Perplexity | Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 for the published weights and inference code. The hosted Decisions API is a proprietary service | 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 | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 2/5 (1) |