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Perplexity releases open-weight Decider v1.3 query classifiers on Hugging Face

According to a post on X by @realpython, Perplexity's Decider v1.3 and the smaller Decider Flash v1.3 ship with Apache-licensed weights on Hugging Face. Perplexity says Decider averages 91.6% accuracy across 63 query-classification tasks, at $26.47 per million requests. The accuracy and cost figures are Perplexity's own claims as relayed in the post.

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According to a post on X by @realpython, Perplexity's Decider v1.3 and the smaller Decider Flash v1.3 ship with Apache-licensed weights on Hugging Face. Perplexity says Decider averages 91.6% accuracy across 63 query-classification tasks, at $26.47 per million requests. The accuracy and cost figures are Perplexity's own claims as relayed in the post.

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Real Python reported that Perplexity's Decider v1.3 and the smaller Decider Flash v1.3 ship Apache-licensed weights on Hugging Face. Perplexity says Decider averages 91.6% accuracy across 63 query-classification tasks at $26.47 per million requests. Why it matters: Developers can route or classify queries with an...

Developers who pay for an API to route or classify queries could test an open model instead, since the weights are available to download. Teams should check the license terms and compare the claimed accuracy and per-request cost against their own workloads before switching. Independent benchmarks of these claims would be the next thing to watch.

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