# Microsoft's Decision-1 scores fixed answer options in one pass and charges nothing for output tokens

The model is Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.5-9B with Microsoft post-training, priced at $0.042 per million input tokens, and Microsoft says it reaches decisions 35 times faster than GPT-6 Sol.

- Published: 2026-10-10T06:23:46.359Z
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Microsoft released Microsoft-Decision-1, a model that only makes decisions, as the Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data put it. The model takes a situation, a question and a fixed set of answer options. In one forward pass it returns a c…

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