# The Decisions API can now search the web before it answers

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/the-decisions-api-can-now-search-the-web-before-it-answers/6502>\
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**Created:** [November 4, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/the-decisions-api-can-now-search-the-web-before-it-answers/6502 "2026-11-04T22:27:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![pplx-announcements](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@pplx-announcements](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/pplx-announcements)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/the-decisions-api-can-now-search-the-web-before-it-answers/6502/1 "2026-11-04T22:27:15Z")

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A decision model returns a probability, but only knows what it saw in training, and your state. Add “mode”: “web\_grounding” and Fast Search runs one query per question, so pplx-decider-v1.2 answers from today’s web.

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