# pplx-decider vs Vela 2.0 (slim)

> Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (B) to pplx-decider's 62.9 (B) for decision models. pplx-decider is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-vs-vela.md (~2,550 tokens) · this version ~730 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-vs-vela.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pplx-decider-vs-vela
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against pplx-decider's 62.9 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. pplx-decider leads on schema & documentation. Both do decision models. pplx-decider is cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens.

- pplx-decider: B 62.9, rank #417 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pplx-decider.min.md
- Vela 2.0: B 66.5, rank #290 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vela.min.md
- pplx-decider, good for High-volume classification, routing and rubric scoring over text and images where a team wants a low hosted price and the option to run the same weights itself. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 90 against 78. Also Cheaper for decision models, $0 against $0 per 1M tokens; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Vela 2.0, good for Self-hosted routing and guardrail checks in one call, where span offsets for personal data or unsupported claims matter. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 25; Maintenance & community, 84 against 62. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | pplx-decider | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 61 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 62 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 52 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | pplx-decider | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Perplexity | vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs |
| 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. The hosted Decisions API is a proprietary service | Apache-2.0 (weights, code and documentation). The 0.3B's tokeniser keeps the Gemma Terms of Use, and training data keeps its own licences |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| 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 | 6.1k stars |