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Best Decision models for retrieval & classification for a 16GB Mac

A leaderboard of the best Decision models for retrieval & classification for a Mac with 16GB of memory. Published typed-decision evaluations, with evaluator-specific protocols and tested settings retained. Each task score uses only its reviewed benchmarks. Models that run on it show the download that fits and the command to run it.

Compare tested decision models and inference recipes across text, vision and workflow tasks. Use task filters and raw results: probability consistency measures coherence, not correctness.

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                 2026-09-19      2026-09-24      2026-09-29      2026-10-04       2026-10-09      2026-10-14

Release dates available for 10 of 17 models. Undated models are omitted; month-only dates are plotted at the start of the month.

#	model	task score↓	where↓	RAM↓	speed↓	get it	sources

#	model	task score↓	where↓	RAM↓	get it
35	Microsoft-Decision-1 Microsoft	64±3	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗
38	d1 (hosted) Liquid AI	63±3	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗
41	Perplexity Decider v1.1 (27B) Perplexity	62±2	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗
46	d1-ultra Liquid AI	62±3	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗
58	Span-02 (Gemma 4 26B-A4B) Respan	61±1	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗
60	d1.1 (hosted) Liquid AI	61±3	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗
61	Clef Cloudflare	61±1	api $0.24/M input tokens	~68GB	developers.cloudflare.com ↗
62	Clef-omni Cloudflare	61±1	api $0.15/M input tokens	~87GB	developers.cloudflare.com ↗
68	Clef-flash Cloudflare	60±1	api $0.038/M input tokens	~25GB	developers.cloudflare.com ↗
77	Mercury Decide (free endpoint) Inception	59±3	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗
83	Mercury Decide (paid endpoint) Inception	59±6*	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗
93	Jev 1.13 TypeSafe	58±1	api $0.042/M input tokens		docs.typesafe.ai ↗
106	Jev 1.14 TypeSafe	57±3	api $0.042/M input tokens		docs.typesafe.ai ↗
111	baselabs joey-1 (2B) baselabs	57±1	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗
118	GPT-6 Luna Decisions OpenAI	56±3	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗
179	Solar Decide Upstage	47±2	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗
203	Solar Decide Flash Upstage	41±2	api price unknown		openrouter.ai ↗

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258 of 258 catalogue models listed here · sources and licences

* new or thinly tested: ranked on too few benchmark results · † no independently run results verified · ~RAM is estimated; full context may need more memory