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Perplexity Orchestrator API

Model API

by Perplexity

Single API and key for open-weight models hosted by Perplexity, callable through the OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses or Anthropic Messages formats, with automatic routing to a healthy deployment; in private preview.

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What it does

• Model inference

Sources

Pricing

Pricing page · 18 Oct 2026

The Orchestrator model catalog lists "per-token pricing for Perplexity-hosted and third-party models", but access is by request in private preview, so no charging model is recorded.

Description

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"The Orchestrator API provides unified access to open-weight models hosted by Perplexity through a single API and API key."; "the platform routes each request to a healthy deployment automatically".

What it does

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"Any model in the catalog can be called through any supported schema, regardless of the model's original provider."

Sold within

Not found · 18 Oct 2026

Read the quickstart: access is "private preview" by email request; it states no plan or purchase route.

Name

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

"Perplexity Orchestrator 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 Orchestrator API".

Deployment

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

Hosted API at https://api.perplexity.ai/router/v1.

Interfaces

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

Works with the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs through a changed base URL ("only the base URL and API key need to change").

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