Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making

Unlike LLMs, which are designed to generate text or reason through complex problems, decision models are purpose-built to deliver structured outputs that software can immediately act on.

And once you understand that capability—making decisions and classifying things at very low cost with high performance—all kinds of useful tasks get unlocked.

Today we’re introducing Microsoft-Decision-1 , our new model for fast decision-scoring, available in Microsoft Foundry and through OpenRouter .

This model is designed for routing, classification, prioritization, verification, and workflow control, making it easier to incorporate decision intelligence into existing applications, agents, and workflows in a secure, trusted environment.

Microsoft-Decision-1 delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform both LLMs and other decision models.

Microsoft-Decision-1 achieved the highest accuracy in our 36-benchmark comparison, spanning nearly 150,000 questions across benchmarks kept blind from training.

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