Summary
On October 16, 2026, Vercel added Perplexity's Decider V1.2 and Decider Flash V1.2 to AI Gateway, callable with one key and shared budgets, extending the gateway's roster of purpose-built decision models.
What changed
Perplexity's Decider V1.2 and Decider Flash V1.2 became available on Vercel AI Gateway with unified keys, shared budgets, and usage tracking.
Why it matters
Decision models, small fast models tuned for routing, classification, and confidence scoring rather than open generation, are emerging as a distinct category, and gateway availability makes them a drop-in control layer for agent pipelines.
Evidence excerpt
Decider V1.2 and Decider Flash V1.2 are accessible through AI Gateway with one key, shared budgets, and usage tracking.