# Perplexity Search API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-search-api/  
**Provider:** Perplexity — https://apis.io/providers/perplexity/  
**Base URL:** https://api.perplexity.ai  
**Documentation:**  https://www.perplexity.ai/

Perplexity Search API is one of 12 APIs that [Perplexity](https://apis.io/providers/perplexity/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification. Tagged areas include Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, pricing, and an AsyncAPI specification.

The Search API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for search.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/openapi/perplexity-search-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/quickstart
- **APIReference** — https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/chat-completions-post
- **Authentication** — https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
- **Pricing** — https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
- **AsyncAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/perplexity-asyncapi.yml

## Other Perplexity APIs (11)

- [Perplexity](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity/)
- [Perplexity Async Chat Completions API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/async-chat-completions-api/)
- [Perplexity Search API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/search-api/)
- [Perplexity Responses API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/responses-api/)
- [Perplexity Embeddings API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/embeddings-api/)
- [Perplexity Agent API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-agent-api/)
- [Perplexity Async API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-async-api/)
- [Perplexity Contextualizedembeddings API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-contextualizedembeddings-api/)
- [Perplexity Embeddings API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-embeddings-api/)
- [Perplexity Models API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-models-api/)
- [Perplexity Sonar API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-sonar-api/)

## Tags

Search

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-search-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/perplexity/.