Netlify adds OpenAI’s beta Decisions API to AI Gateway

In a changelog entry dated October 7, 2026, Netlify announced support for OpenAI’s Decisions API in its AI Gateway. The company says developers can call the beta service from Netlify Functions using the OpenAI SDK, without managing API keys.

The API handles classification, routing and scoring rather than generating prose. Developers supply an input and define questions about it. For a choice question, Netlify says the answer is always one of the options the developer declared—giving application code a defined value to branch on instead of free-form text to interpret. The entry lists gpt-6-luna as the model behind the beta.

Netlify illustrates the workflow with an online store’s return requests. A customer’s complaint that a jacket zipper came off on its second wear produces a defective result in the sample. The company suggests using that label to trigger a prepaid return label, while using the returned confidence score to send unclear requests to a support team.

A fixed set of labels makes a result easier to use in code; it does not establish that the label is right. Netlify’s illustrative response is not a measured test of classification accuracy or of how reliably the confidence score identifies uncertain cases.