# RightNow System Zero vs Strands Decider 2B (slim)

> RightNow System Zero scores 66.8 (B) to Strands Decider 2B's 61.5 (C) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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RightNow System Zero scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Strands Decider 2B's 61.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Strands Decider 2B leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do decision models.

- RightNow System Zero: B 66.8, rank #320 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rightnow-system-zero.min.md
- Strands Decider 2B: C 61.5, rank #550 of 1244 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-decider.min.md
- RightNow System Zero, good for Typed decisions with per-option probabilities over text, JSON, images, audio and PDFs, including on streaming state Ahead on Schema & documentation, 83 against 76; Agent ergonomics, 86 against 69; Security & auth, 70 against 49; Transparency & trust, 70 against 57. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- 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 40; Maintenance & community, 79 against 68. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | RightNow System Zero | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 86 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 70 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 68 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 57 |

| Fact (where they differ) | RightNow System Zero | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | RightNow AI, Inc. | Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.rightnowai.co/v1/system-zero/decide` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, websocket | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted model under RightNow AI terms of use; the SDKs are Apache-2.0 | 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 | 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (1) |