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The API costs 4 cents per million input tokens with free output tokens, and Perplexity says it intends to cut prices further.
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We’re open sourcing a state of the art multimodal Decision Model, pplx-decider-27b, and are offering it in a new Decisions API at 4 cents per million input tokens and free output tokens. We intend to bring down the price even further over the coming days. Enjoy!Read original on X
congrats @AravSrinivas! more entrants in the decision model class, and this one is open weights cheap typed answers for the small calls inside a harness (routing, approvals, judging), big model for the restRead original on X
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