# Perplexity Responses API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/responses-api/  
**Provider:** Perplexity — https://apis.io/providers/perplexity/  
**Base URL:** https://api.perplexity.ai  
**Documentation:** https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/grounded-llm/responses/quickstart

Perplexity Responses API is one of 12 APIs that [Perplexity](https://apis.io/providers/perplexity/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification. Tagged areas include Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Research, and Web Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, and an AsyncAPI specification.

The Responses API (Agentic Research API) provides access to third-party frontier models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI with integrated web search tools, URL fetching, function calling, and multi-step reasoning presets such as pro-search and deep-research.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/grounded-llm/responses/quickstart
- **APIReference** — https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/responses-post
- **Authentication** — https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
- **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 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 Search API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-search-api/)
- [Perplexity Sonar API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-sonar-api/)

## Tags

Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Research, Web Search

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