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title: "Perplexity releases Decider for Mac to run pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 locally with no API key"
description: "Perplexity has released Decider for Mac, a menu-bar application that runs its pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 model locally on a Mac."
retrieval_nugget: "Perplexity has released Decider for Mac, a menu-bar application that runs its pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 model locally on a Mac."
published_at: "2026-10-24"
updated_at: "2026-10-24"
record_date: "2026-10-24"
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topics: ["generative-ui","agent-interfaces"]
entities: ["Perplexity","Decider for Mac","pplx-decider-flash-v1.2","Decisions API"]
related_patterns: ["model-answers-become-task-interfaces"]
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what_changed: "Same event as ICYMI 👀 : Perplexity released its pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 decision model as Mac application that serves decision API locally."
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source_url: "https://community.perplexity.ai/t/you-can-now-run-pplx-decider-flash-v1-2-locally-on-your-mac-without-an-api-key/6413"
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# Perplexity releases Decider for Mac to run pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 locally with no API key

## Retrieval answer

Perplexity has released Decider for Mac, a menu-bar application that runs its pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 model locally on a Mac.

Perplexity has released Decider for Mac, a menu-bar application that runs its pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 model locally on a Mac. The October 23 announcement describes the model as a 4B decision model and says it can answer a question about text or an image with a probability.

The application exposes a local Decisions API at 127.0.0.1, allowing software on the machine to make requests without a Perplexity API key. Perplexity says the local request format matches its hosted Decisions API, with the hosted endpoint requiring a URL change and authentication.

According to the linked documentation, first launch downloads a 5.8 GB q8_0 GGUF build. The stated requirements are an Apple-silicon Mac, macOS 13 or later, 16 GB of RAM, and about 6 GB of disk space. Examples include labeling private files, a pre-commit secret-scanning hook, and screenshot sorting.

The announcement does not establish the model's licensing terms, measured inference speed, accuracy beyond Perplexity's description, or full feature parity with the hosted service.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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