Perplexity Search API
Web search API that returns real-time, ranked web results as structured data with controls for domains, languages, regions and extracted page content, for feeding agents and applications.
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What it does
- Search answers
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- Pricing
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Search is priced per 1,000 requests ($5.00 standard, $1.00 fast) in the pricing data; the Embeddings quickstart states "Pay-as-you-go pricing for all APIs. No subscription required."
- Description
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
"Perplexity's Search API returns real-time, ranked web results as structured data, with controls for domains, languages, regions, and extracted content."
- What it does
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
"Use the Search API when you need raw results for your own processing."; multi-query search and content extraction.
- Sold within
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
"Generate an API key and make your first call in < 3 minutes."; pay-as-you-go with no subscription.
- Name
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
"Perplexity Search API".
- URL
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
The API's own quickstart page in the Perplexity API documentation, listed in the docs index as "Perplexity Search API".
- Deployment
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
Hosted API at api.perplexity.ai.
- Interfaces
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
REST API with Python and TypeScript SDKs ("pip install perplexityai") and the "Perplexity CLI ... returns the same ranked results as JSON".
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