# ScaleDown vs Strands Decider 2B (slim)

> Strands Decider 2B scores 61.3 (C) to ScaleDown's 48.6 (D) for decision models. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Strands Decider 2B scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against ScaleDown's 48.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScaleDown leads on agent ergonomics. Both do decision models.

- ScaleDown: D 48.6, rank #873 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scaledown.min.md
- Strands Decider 2B: C 61.3, rank #502 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-decider.min.md
- ScaleDown, good for Cheap, high-volume labelling, routing and yes or no checks where a probability is more useful than prose, and for pulling described fields with offsets from text, images or PDFs. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 76 against 69. 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 Reliability, 50 against 20; Schema & documentation, 76 against 69; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Maintenance & community, 79 against 56. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | ScaleDown | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 20 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 49 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ScaleDown | Strands Decider 2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Carbon ScaleDown, Inc. | Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.scaledown.xyz` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted models under ScaleDown's Terms of Service. The langchain-scaledown integration is MIT | 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 | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-05 |
| 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 | 0 stars | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (1) |