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When should you use OpenAI Decisions instead of Responses?

OpenAI's 6 October 2026 Decisions API is a narrower surface than Responses: it only answers predicate, choice, and score questions on `/v1/decisions`, bills input tokens only, and returns probabilities instead of generated text. Use it for routing and triage. Keep Responses for extraction, explanations, and tool calls.

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