Perplexity · Pricing Plans

Perplexity Plans Pricing

Perplexity Plans Pricing is the pricing profile for Perplexity on the APIs.io network — every figure transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own pricing page on 2026-10-07.

It defines 15 plans, including web_search (standard) — $0.0025 per invocation; web_search (Fast Search) — $0.001 per invocation; image_search — $0.0025 per successful invocation, and 12 more.

The page prices API or platform usage directly, priced per call; the service is delivered as managed.

Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Search, Agents, and Embeddings.

15 Plans Prices the API Basis: per call Delivered: managed
Transcribed from the provider's pricing page on 2026-10-07 — docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing.
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Artificial IntelligenceLLMSearchAgentsEmbeddingsResearchAgentic CommerceFoundation Models

Plans

web_search (standard) per-use
$0.0025 per invocation per invocation
web_search (Fast Search) per-use
$0.001 per invocation per invocation
image_search per-use
$0.0025 per successful invocation per successful invocation
fetch_url per-use
$0.0005 per invocation per invocation
people_search per-use
$0.005 per invocation per invocation
finance_search per-use
$0.005 per invocation per invocation
sandbox per-use
$0.03 per session per session (up to 20 min)
Search API per-use
$5.00 per per 1K requests
Search API with Fast Search per-use
$1.00 per per 1K requests
pplx-embed-v1-0.6b per-use
$0.004 per $/1M tokens
pplx-embed-v1-4b per-use
$0.03 per $/1M tokens
pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b per-use
$0.008 per $/1M tokens
pplx-embed-context-v1-4b per-use
$0.05 per $/1M tokens
pplx-decider-v1.1-27b per-use
$0.02 per $/1M input tokens
Includes: Output tokens free; no per-request fee
pplx-decider-v1-27b per-use
$0.02 per $/1M input tokens
Includes: Output tokens free; no per-request fee

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