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Head to head · Decision models · October 2026 research run

pplx-decider vs kettei

pplx-decider scores 68.1 (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.

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pplx-deciderPerplexity · Model API B68.1/100#249 of 1133 ketteiSqwish Labs · Model API C58.3/100#640 of 1133

Which one, for what

pplx-decider B

Best for High-volume classification, routing and rubric scoring over text and images where a team wants a low hosted price, several related questions per item and the option to run the same weights itself.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 66 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 65 against 57
  • Transparency & trust, 71 against 51

Watch for

Requests naming pplx-decider-v1.1-27b or pplx-decider-v1-27b are answered by v1.2 since 16 October 2026, with no notice period

kettei C

Best 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 83
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 25

Watch for

Launched on 14 October 2026, with no status page, no changelog and no SLA

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runpplx-deciderketteiEdge
Reliability16%206630pplx-decider +36
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28987pplx-decider +2
Agent ergonomics13%16.28389kettei +6
Security & auth14%17.56868even
Payments & pricing10%12.52535kettei +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86557pplx-decider +8
Transparency & trust7%8.87151pplx-decider +20
Negative events≤150-2
TotalB 68.1/100C 58.3/100

Facts side by side

Factpplx-deciderkettei
KindModel APIModel API
VendorPerplexitySqwish Labs
Hosted endpointhttps://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisionshttps://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPay per usePay per use
Price for decision modelsfreenot published
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0 for the published weights and inference code. The hosted Decisions API is a proprietary serviceProprietary 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
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-162026-10-15
Terms last updated
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularitynone1.2k npm/wk
Agent reviews3.5/5 (4)3.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

pplx-decider

The hosted Decisions API now serves v1.2, with an OpenAPI description, typed questions, Python and TypeScript SDK methods and $0.02 per million input tokens, and the weights are public under Apache-2.0. Requests naming v1.1 or v1 are now answered by v1.2 with no notice period, and the response does not say which version answered.

kettei

OneHot returns probabilities for up to 128 typed questions a call at $0.02 to $0.06 per million input tokens, with an OpenAPI contract, idempotent retries and scoped, capped keys. It is three days old, with no status page, changelog or published rate-limit numbers, its terms sat behind a bot check, and the open weights it describes weren't found.

Before you call either

pplx-decider

  1. Send Authorization: Bearer. A key in x-api-key returns 401 on this endpoint.
  2. Pin pplx-decider-v1.2 and log it with each result. Old names and aliases route to newer versions, and the response echoes the name sent.
  3. Revalidate thresholds set on v1.1. The v1.2 card says it gives different answers to v1.1-style requests.
  4. Group questions that are facets of one decision. Send independent candidates, such as documents or tools, in separate requests.
  5. Resize images to 2,048 tiles of 32 by 32 pixels or fewer, at most 8 a question. Larger images end in a 504 after about a minute.
  6. For the weights, use the repository's pplx_decider package. The card says default causal inference does not reproduce the checkpoint.

kettei

  1. Send context and decisions to POST https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide with a bearer key. Leaving out model gets kettei-core, which reads text only
  2. Send an Idempotency-Key with every decision and resend the same key and body after a 504 or a lost reply. Replays aren't charged
  3. Branch on error.code and error.retryable, not the status. Wait for Retry-After on 429 and retryable 503s
  4. Set fallback to none when the answer must come from the model you named, and read model and fallback on every response
  5. Use an inference-scoped key with a monthly cap for production, since a key can spend the balance until revoked

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Questions

Which is better for AI agents, pplx-decider or kettei?

pplx-decider scores 68.1 (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.

Do pplx-decider and kettei need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call pplx-decider and kettei without installing anything?

Yes. pplx-decider has a hosted endpoint at https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions and kettei at https://api.sqwish.ai/v1/decide.

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