# Perplexity — New: Decisions API

- Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- Announced: 2026-10-05T21:42:37+00:00
- Category: api-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#october-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16098-new-decisions-api
- Subject: Sonar
- Models affected: pplx-decider-v1-27b
- Pricing: Input costs $0.04 per million tokens. Output tokens are free, with no per-request fee.

Perplexity released the Decisions API, which answers questions about text, JSON, or images with probabilities instead of generated text, using the pplx-decider-v1-27b model for yes-or-no, choice, or scored answers. Input costs $0.04 per million tokens, with free output tokens and no per-request fee.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#october-2026:

> The Decisions API answers questions about text, JSON, or images with probabilities instead of generated text. Use POST /v1/decisions with pplx-decider-v1-27b for yes-or-no, choice, or scored answers that application code can act on directly.

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