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Summary by fallback. It may be wrong; the diff below is what actually changed. Raw: 06a0a7d464-perplexity-api-pricing.diff · commit 06a0a7d464

diff --git a/snapshots/perplexity/api-pricing.md b/snapshots/perplexity/api-pricing.mdindex 92a0bc8..7e532b4 100644--- a/snapshots/perplexity/api-pricing.md+++ b/snapshots/perplexity/api-pricing.md@@ -90,5 +90,15 @@ The Decisions API answers yes/no, multiple-choice, and scored questions about te | `pplx-decider-flash-v1.2` | $0.01 | Free | None | -Aliases: `pplx-decider-latest` and `perplexity/pplx-decider-latest` select `pplx-decider-v1.2`. `pplx-decider-flash-latest` and `perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-latest` select `pplx-decider-flash-v1.2`. An alias bills at the rate of the model it selects. Requests that name `pplx-decider-v1.1-27b` or `pplx-decider-v1-27b` select `pplx-decider-v1.2` and bill at $0.02.Billing unit: you pay for input tokens only. The `state`, every question, and any images count as input; the response reports the exact number as `usage.input_tokens`, so you can compute the cost of a request from the response you already receive. A request with 600 input tokens costs $0.000012 on `pplx-decider-v1.2` and $0.000006 on `pplx-decider-flash-v1.2`.+Aliases: `pplx-decider-latest` and `perplexity/pplx-decider-latest` select `pplx-decider-v1.2`. `pplx-decider-flash-latest` and `perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-latest` select `pplx-decider-flash-v1.2`. An alias bills at the rate of the model it selects. Requests that name `pplx-decider-v1.1-27b` or `pplx-decider-v1-27b` select `pplx-decider-v1.2` and bill at $0.02.Billing unit: you pay for input tokens, plus web searches and URL fetches if you set `mode: "web_grounding"`. The `state`, every question, any images, fetched page text, and any search results added to the `state` count as input; the response reports the exact number as `usage.input_tokens`, so you can compute the token cost of a request from the response you already receive. A request with 600 input tokens costs $0.000012 on `pplx-decider-v1.2` and $0.000006 on `pplx-decider-flash-v1.2`.++### Web grounding++A request with `mode: "web_grounding"` runs one Fast Search for each of its questions, up to 100, before the model answers. Each search costs $0.001 ($1 per 1,000), in addition to input tokens, so at most $0.10 in searches per request. Questions that produce the same search query share one search. When `state` is a page URL, the API also fetches the page before searching. Each successful URL fetch costs $0.001; a failed fetch is not billed. One successful fetch and three successful searches cost $0.004, plus input tokens.++- Billed: every search that returns, even with no results. Completed searches and successful URL fetches remain billable if the request later fails, for example because the input exceeds the token limit.+- Not billed: a search that fails or runs out of time, a question with no text to search, and requests rejected before search: an invalid `mode`, more than 100 questions, a missing or unknown `model`, or a `state` that is not a string, object, or array. A request can be billed for fewer searches than it has questions.+- Input tokens: fetched page text and search evidence are billed as input tokens and included in `usage.input_tokens`.++See Web grounding.  ## View Decisions API Documentation

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