Microsoft shipped a decision model that turns the model itself into the price list.
Microsoft-Decision-1 returns a label and a probability instead of a paragraph, and it is priced to take over the cheap half of your inference traffic. Here is the short version.
- The model runs on Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-9B. Microsoft says it will rebase on its own weights and OpenAI’s, with no date.
- Input tokens cost $0.042 per million and output tokens are free.
- Microsoft claims it is more than 20 times cheaper than GPT-6 Sol for text classification.
- More than 100 decision models are now listed, from Cloudflare, OpenAI, Liquid AI and others.
Read the full analysis of decision models and the inference bill.
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