pplx-decider-v1-27b
Fine-tuned from Qwen3.8-27B. Context is the API's 262,144-token input limit. Benchmarks are Perplexity's own; Jev still leads on 4–6 of 11 tests.
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Input
- text, image
- Output
- text
- License
- apache-2.0
- Pricing
- input: $0.04 · output: $0 (per 1M tokens (output tokens free; Decisions API)) source
- Verified
- 2026-10-03
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity API | pplx-decider-v1-27b | https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions | docs |
| Hugging Face | — | huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/pplx-decider-v1-27b | — |
Notable capabilities (1)
- Decision model (probabilities over fixed answers): Returns a probability distribution over the allowed options for 1–128 typed questions per request instead of generating text; Perplexity reports 85.71% on its 11-benchmark panel vs 84.51% for Jev. source
Open-weights decision model behind Perplexity's Decisions API. Send a request with your content plus typed questions to POST https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/decisions; output tokens are free.
Timeline entry
- Perplexity launches a Decisions API and open-sources pplx-decider-v1-27b, a decision model it says edges Jev (85.71% vs 84.51%) ★★
On Oct 1, 2026, hours after Cloudflare's Clef, Perplexity released the Decisions API and the Apache-2.0 weights of pplx-decider-v1-27b, a multimodal model that returns a probability distribution over a fixed set of answers instead of text. It costs $0.04 per 1M input tokens with free output, and…