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Perplexity Embeddings API

Model API

by Perplexity

Embeddings API that generates standard and document-contextualized text embeddings (pplx-embed models, 1024 and 2560 dimensions, 32K context) for semantic search and retrieval, billed per million tokens.

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What it does

• Vector search

Sources

Pricing

Pricing page · 18 Oct 2026

"Pay-as-you-go pricing for all APIs. No subscription required."; models priced from "$0.004" to "$0.05" per 1M tokens.

Description

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"Perplexity's Embeddings API generates high-quality text embeddings for semantic search and retrieval. Choose between standard embeddings for independent texts or contextualized embeddings for document chunks that share context."

What it does

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

Models "pplx-embed-v1-0.6b", "pplx-embed-v1-4b", "pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b" and "pplx-embed-context-v1-4b" with 32K context.

Sold within

Pricing page · 18 Oct 2026

"Pay-as-you-go pricing for all APIs. No subscription required."

Name

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"Embeddings API".

URL

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

The API's own quickstart page in the Perplexity API documentation, listed in the docs index as "Perplexity Embeddings API".

Deployment

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

Hosted API at api.perplexity.ai.

Interfaces

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

REST API with Python and TypeScript SDKs ("pip install perplexityai").

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