Perplexity Releases Decider v1.3 Open-Weight Decision Models with Locate Span Extraction

Perplexity released pplx-decider-v1.3 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.3, open-weight decision models that return per-option probabilities rather than generated text, with weights under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and availability in the Perplexity Decisions API and OpenRouter. The main addition is Locate, which extracts exact text spans with start and end character offsets for NER, PII detection and extractive QA. Perplexity reports 91.6% mean accuracy on 63 query-classification tasks and 69.0 average on 17 out-of-domain Locate tasks, though all figures are self-reported; API pricing is $0.02 and $0.01 per 1M input tokens for v1.3 and Flash.