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On October 17, 2026, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas reposted OpenRouter's related announcement and said that OpenRouter is the best platform for using the Perplexity Decider model. According to the same source, OpenRouter announced that Perplexity Decider v1.2 and Decider Flash v1.2 are now live, describing them as Perplexity's open-weight decision models that can accept text or images and return typed answers with probabilities; Decider v1.2 is a new 27B checkpoint replacing v1.1, while Decider Flash v1.2 is 4B, faster and at half the cost. This assessment is currently found only in this source, with no subsequent developments yet.
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Perplexity Decider models launch on OpenRouter
OpenRouter announced that Perplexity Decider v1.2 and Decider Flash v1.2 are now live, calling them Perplexity's open-weight decision models that can accept text or images and return typed answers with probabilities; Decider v1.2 is a new 27B checkpoint succeeding v1.1, while Decider Flash v1.2 is 4B, faster and at half the cost. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas reposted the news and said OpenRouter is the best platform for using the Perplexity Decider models.