Perplexity and AWS Strands flood the market with decision models on 1 October
On 1 October 2026 Perplexity launched pplx-decider-v1-27b and its Decisions API (about $0.04/M input tokens, free output) while AWS Strands Labs released open-source Strands Decider 2B for local agent routing, in the same wave as Cloudflare’s Clef.