Perplexity releases pplx-decider-v1.3 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.3, open-weight decision models

Perplexity's developer account says pplx-decider-v1.3 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.3 are rolling out, the latest versions of its open-weight decision models. Version 1.3 adds locate, a feature that extracts spans of text based on a type or instructions.

• Both models are available in the Decisions API, on Hugging Face under the Apache license, and on OpenRouter. The v1.3 model is free on OpenRouter until November 19.
• Perplexity's own figures: on 1M real Decisions API requests, pplx-decider-v1.3 had the highest agreement with frontier LLM judges of any model tested, at 93.98%, and both models beat general-purpose extraction models on 17 out-of-domain extraction tasks.