perplexity
Perplexity: Decider Flash V1.3 (free)
perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-v1.3:free
Our take
AI-assisted analysis based on the sources below. Suitability is an editorial assessment; test it on your own workload.
OpenRouter's catalog describes perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-v1.3:free as a Perplexity decision model and a smaller, lower-cost sibling of perplexity/pplx-decider-v1.3 with the same API contract. It is listed for text and image inputs with decision outputs rather than ordinary text generation, plus a 262,144-token context window. This evidence is catalog metadata only: no independent model card was supplied, and benchmark measurements were not reported, so real-world accuracy, latency, and reliability require workload validation.[1]
Strengths
Limitations
- Only OpenRouter catalog metadata was supplied; no independent model card was available, so source-reported capabilities should be validated in the target workload.[1]
- No benchmark measurements, knowledge cutoff, supported parameters, or Hugging Face artifact were reported; these are evidence gaps, not confirmed absences.[1]
- Its listed output is decisions rather than text, so it is not a direct fit for applications that need generated prose.[1]
Where to use it
- Evaluate classification, routing, or approval-style decisions over text and image inputs after confirming the required decision schema.[1]
- Prototype decision steps that may later move to perplexity/pplx-decider-v1.3, if the reported shared API contract is verified.[1]
- Consider for cost-sensitive experiments where the free listing and large stated context window are important.[1]
Sources
- [1] OpenRouter catalog · Perplexity: Decider Flash V1.3 (free)Sources checked: Nov 13, 2026
About this model
Description below is the original text supplied by OpenRouter, shown in the source language.
Decider Flash V1.3 is a decision model from Perplexity, a smaller, lower-cost sibling of [Decider V1.3](/perplexity/pplx-decider-v1.3) with the same API contract. Instead of generating text, it reads content passed as...
Specifications
- Model ID
- perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-v1.3:free
- Canonical ID
- perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-v1.3-20261112
- Creator
- perplexity
- Added to OpenRouter
- 12.11.2026
- Context length
- 262,144
- Modality
- text+image->decisions
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- decisions
- Token pricing
- No per-token price in the source snapshot — see OpenRouter for the billing unit
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Expiration date
- —
Tasks and capabilities
A grade appears only where the source supplies a matching measurement for that task, the model is active and the cohort holds at least 10 comparable models. The capability column lists facts the source declares — supported formats, reasoning and tool parameters — which are not measured quality.
| Task | Grade | Source-declared capability |
|---|---|---|
| General quality | No measurement | — |
| Coding | No measurement | — |
| Agents | No measurement | — |
| Writing | No measurement | — |
| Reasoning | No measurement | — |
| Document analysis | No measurement | — |
| Vision | No measurement | input: image |
| Image generation | No measurement | — |
| Audio | No measurement | — |
| Video | No measurement | — |
| Embeddings | No measurement | — |
Evaluations
No evaluations are supplied for this model.
How grades work
Each letter grade compares a model only against other models scored by the same source and metric in the current snapshot. S means the top 10%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the rest. Models without a published measurement are shown as not rated — a supported format alone never implies measured quality.
- S — S — top 10% of the cohort
- A — A — next 20% of the cohort
- B — B — next 30% of the cohort
- C — C — below the B band
Providers
Optional live provider statistics from OpenRouter. Missing values are unknown, not zero.
| Provider | Context length | Price in /1M | Price out /1M | Latency p50 (30m, s) | Throughput p50 (30m, tok/s) | Uptime (30m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity | 262,144 | — | — | — | — | 100% |
Provider data retrieved: 13.11.2026
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