# Perplexity — Decisions API: pplx-decider-v1.2 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.2

- Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- Announced: 2026-10-16T17:41:02+00:00
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#october-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/23625-decisions-api-pplx-decider-v1-2-and-pplx-decider-flash-v1-2
- Subject: Sonar
- Models affected: pplx-decider-v1.2, pplx-decider-flash-v1.2, pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, pplx-decider-v1-27b
- Pricing: pplx-decider-v1.2 at $0.02 per million input tokens; pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 at $0.01 per million input tokens. Output tokens stay free.

Perplexity released pplx-decider-v1.2, replacing pplx-decider-v1.1-27b as the 27B decision model at $0.02 per million input tokens, and introduced pplx-decider-flash-v1.2, a new 4B decision model at $0.01 per million input tokens. Both models accept text and images with the same request limits, and output tokens remain free.

## Evidence

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

> pplx-decider-v1.2 replaces pplx-decider-v1.1-27b as the 27B decision model, at $0.02 per million input tokens. pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 is a new 4B decision model at $0.01 per million input tokens.

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