decision-machine-1

Behind Milliseconds.ai, the API that CloudRaker Inc. of Montreal offers for compact, typed decisions about text and images, sits decision-machine-1. Instead of writing prose, it returns structured answers, which makes it suited to classification, extraction and checking steps inside larger software.

What a request can return

The result types are specific. A yes/no question comes back with a probability. A label comes with the full score distribution. Other outputs include a rating on a scale, answer spans with character offsets, named entities, fields extracted to fit a JSON Schema, and verification of a value against the source text. CloudRaker's own blog posts date the API's launch to 19 September 2026, and it grew out of models the company already used in its Paperwork document API.

What sits underneath

CloudRaker explains that the name denotes the product surface, not one newly trained model. Constrained choices are handled by a small instruction-following model, Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct, and span extraction by GLiNER2.5. The company publishes neither a parameter count nor a context window. One text may be up to 20,000 characters long, and up to 32 texts can be batched in a request. Images (JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 5 MB) are not stored and are billed as a fixed token count that depends on detail level. Labels and instructions are best written in English, while the input text may be in other languages.

Integration

An endpoint compatible with the OpenAI interface covers tool calls and extraction against a JSON schema, but not plain chat. Production use is billed on input tokens only, with no charge for output, and test keys include a monthly allowance of free input tokens. For an image decision at medium detail, the vendor quotes roughly 90 ms of model time.

Caveats from the vendor

CloudRaker is clear that neither a probability nor well-formed output guarantees a correct answer. It recommends testing on the customer's own data and having people review ambiguous or high-stakes cases. The service is proprietary and available only as a hosted service.