Model board / Perplexity Decider v1.2

Verified 2026-10-22 against the pages listed below. Prices are USD per 1M tokens, list rate — no committed-use, enterprise or volume discount.

input only, output free, no per-request fee. Supersedes v1.1: the quickstart prices v1.2 and flash-v1.2 only

no input budget is stated on the v1.2 pages fetched this pass; v1.1 stated 262,144 tokens per request

no caching or batch discount documented

Watch out

Perplexity does not say whether the weights are published. Aliases bill at the rate of the model they select

What we would use it for

Typed decisions over text, JSON or images at two cents per million input tokens

What this has cost, week by week

Output price at each refresh since 2026-10-22. A vendor change is the provider changing its price. Our correction means this board changed what it prints and the provider's charge did not move — the two are never merged, because publishing the second as the first would be a price rise that never happened.

Nothing has moved since we started tracking it.

Where these numbers came from

• https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
• https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/decisions/quickstart

No number on this page was written that was not read from one of those pages on 2026-10-22. If one is wrong, send us the source URL and it is corrected in the next weekly refresh, with a changelog line saying what was wrong — contact@naderu.com.

Jobs this is one of our picks for

• Typed decisions (Jev-class) — State in, a calibrated choice out — no text generated (typed-decisions)

The rest of the board

This row sits alongside 76 others on the model board, refreshed every week. The same data as JSON, and the terms for using it, are at /board-data.