Perplexity open-sources Decision Models: 4B at 1 cent/M tokens, tops HF Decision Index
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-10-17
Perplexity open-sourced a new pair of SOTA multimodal decision models: pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 (4B params, 1 cent per million tokens, top 4B on the HF Decision Index) and pplx-decider-v1.2 (27B params, 2 cents per million tokens, #2 overall). Both improve text and vision scores, run up to 5x faster by answering all questions in a request in a single pass, and are available as open weights on Hugging Face and via the Perplexity Decisions API.
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