pplx-decider-v1.1: Perplexity's decision model bumps, halves its price
From the AI digest for 2026-10-06
What happened: Perplexity Developers (~1:25 PM ET): pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, "our updated open weights multimodal decision model, is now available. It scores the highest on the new @huggingface Decision Index 0.3 benchmark" — pointing at the multimodalart/jev-decision-index space. Arav doubles down 20 minutes later (~4:46 PM ET): "Also, Perplexity Decision API pricing was cut by half, now to 2 cents per million input tokens. Enjoy!"
What's genuinely new: version bump (v1-27b → v1.1-27b), a claimed top score on a benchmark space Perplexity doesn't own, and the price halving to $0.02/M input — half the v1 price and half Jev's. Ledger item resolved: Arav's Oct 1 "we intend to bring down the price even further over the coming days" — delivered day 5, review-by (Oct 8) not yet due. The decision-models runner question (Jev vs AnyJev vs d1 vs OpenAI Decisions API vs pplx-decider vs Clef/Strands) gains a v1.1 cell; the independent run on identical labeled workloads still doesn't exist.
Watch: whether HF Decision Index 0.3 is the community's scoring harness (whose table wins); Jev/Cloudflare responses; still no runner.
Links: Arav