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Microsoft AI Releases Microsoft-Decision-1: A Qwen3.5-9B Decision-Scoring Model

AnnouncementModelOct 10, 2026

Microsoft released Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision-scoring model post-trained from Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B that returns calibrated probabilities for fixed answer options instead of text. Available via Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter, it led Microsoft's 36-benchmark comparison at 83.5% average accuracy with 85 ms p50 latency, ahead of Quyet-1.0-Large at 81.9%. Pricing is $0.042 per million input tokens with free output. Latency comparisons are disputed, and all benchmarks are vendor-run.

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