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// 1h agoMODEL RELEASE
Perplexity Drops pplx-decider-27b Model
Perplexity open-sourced a multimodal decision model that returns probability distributions over fixed answers instead of generated prose, alongside a Decisions API priced at $0.04 per million input tokens with free output. Its model card reports 85.71% overall across 11 benchmarks.
// ANALYSIS
This is a compelling shift from chat-first AI toward cheap, structured decisions for production workflows.
- –The model can handle text and images for routing, classification, ranking, and action selection.
- –Open weights make local deployment possible, though the 26B BF16 model requires roughly 49GB of GPU memory.
- –The API’s low input pricing and free outputs could make high-volume triage and moderation substantially cheaper.
- –The 85.71% score is vendor-reported, and performance varies meaningfully across the included benchmarks.
// TAGS
pplx-decider-v1-27bmultimodalllmopen-weightsapiinferencestructured-outputevaluation
DISCOVERED
1h ago
2026-10-02
PUBLISHED
1h ago
2026-10-02
RELEVANCE
9/ 10
AUTHOR
dani_avila7