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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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Compare tiers
| Plan | Price | Includes | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
| web_search (standard) | $0.0025 per invocation per invocation | — | — |
| web_search (Fast Search) | $0.001 per invocation per invocation | — | — |
| image_search | $0.0025 per successful invocation per successful invocation | — | — |
| fetch_url | $0.0005 per invocation per invocation | — | — |
| people_search | $0.005 per invocation per invocation | — | — |
| finance_search | $0.005 per invocation per invocation | — | — |
| sandbox | $0.03 per session per session (up to 20 min) | — | — |
| Search API | $5.00 per per 1K requests | — | — |
| Search API with Fast Search | $1.00 per per 1K requests | — | — |
| pplx-embed-v1-0.6b | $0.004 per $/1M tokens | — | — |
| pplx-embed-v1-4b | $0.03 per $/1M tokens | — | — |
| pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b | $0.008 per $/1M tokens | — | — |
| pplx-embed-context-v1-4b | $0.05 per $/1M tokens | — | — |
| pplx-decider-v1.1-27b | $0.02 per $/1M input tokens | Output tokens free; no per-request fee | — |
| pplx-decider-v1-27b | $0.02 per $/1M input tokens | Output tokens free; no per-request fee | — |
Compare with the market: Artificial Intelligence pricing
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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Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.