Perplexity's open-weights Decider v1.1 hits OpenRouter at half the price
AI summary
Perplexity has released pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, an updated open-weights multimodal decision model, now available on OpenRouter. It accepts text, JSON or image inputs and returns typed answers with probabilities. According to Perplexity Developers and OpenRouter, it costs $0.02 per million input tokens — half the price of v1 — with output free, and the company says it scores highest on the newly launched Hugging Face Decision Index 0.3 benchmark.
In-depth insight
If the pricing and benchmark claims hold up, small open-weights decision models could become a cost-sensitive option for structured decision tasks.