# Strands Decider 2B vs Vela 2.0 (slim)

> Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (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 transparency & trust. Both do inference decision. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Vela 2.0 scores 66.5 (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 transparency & trust. Both do inference decision.

- Strands Decider 2B: C 61.3, rank #368 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strands-decider.min.md
- Vela 2.0: B 66.5, rank #237 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vela.min.md
- 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 Transparency & trust, 54 against 48.
- 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 Reliability, 57 against 50; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 69; Security & auth, 60 against 49; Maintenance & community, 84 against 79.

| Category | Strands Decider 2B | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 49 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 54 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Strands Decider 2B | Vela 2.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services (Strands Agents) | vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (code, LoRA adapter, readout head, training recipe and data inventory), on the Apache-2.0 Qwen3.5-2B-Base | 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 |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-06 |
| Popularity | none | 6.1k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (1) | none |