Perplexity

Perplexity AI is an answer engine that delivers accurate answers to complex questions using large language models with real-time web search capabilities.

Perplexity publishes 17 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Async Chat Completions API, Responses API, Agent API, and 14 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Search, Agents, and Embeddings.

The Perplexity catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Perplexity’s developer surface includes changelog, authentication, getting-started guide, API reference, pricing, engineering blog, signup flow, and 59 more developer resources.

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65.7/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 68/100 agent native saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

2 published contracts 1 MCP Servers 16 Features

Artificial Intelligence LLM Search Agents Embeddings Research Agentic Commerce Foundation Models

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

AI Model Services

AE-110

AsyncContextualizedembeddingsEmbeddingsSonar

POST /v1/embeddings POST /v1/sonar

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 65.7/100 · strong

Contract Quality 11.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.8 / 15

Access Clarity 12.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 7.7 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 4.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 68/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 8 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the AI & Biometrics regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode +4 pts — OpenAPI: destructive operations expose a dry_run / simulate / preview / validate_only parameter
Well-Known Catalog +4 pts — common[].type includes WellKnown, APICatalog, or api-catalog
Consent & Bot Identity +3 pts — common[].type includes AIPREF, ContentSignal, WebBotAuth, or HTTPMessageSignatures

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Governance scores 13.6 — up to +10.4 composite points
Contract Quality scores 60.3 — up to +9.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 65.5 — up to +6.9 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Typed Decision Models	covered	51.8	1	-
AI Model Routing	covered	51.8	1	-
Stripe App Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem (builders on Stripe)	covered	51.8	1	-
Raycast Store Extensions (first-party publishers + community-wrapped products)	covered	51.8	1	-
Obsidian Community Plugins (third-party APIs the Obsidian plugin ecosystem integrates)	covered	51.8	1	-
Discord App Directory (builders of apps on Discord)	covered	51.8	1	-
IFTTT Services (service publishers)	covered	51.8	1	-
Hugging Face Hub Organisations	covered	51.8	1	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 7

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

The OpenAI Interface

declared — publishes a spec that declares them

2 core of 338 operations graded · api-commons/models

Agent2Agent

measured — observed by APIs.io (conformant)

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

AsyncAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 17

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Perplexity

What do you want to know?

Perplexity Async Chat Completions API

The Async Chat Completions API enables developers to submit long-running chat completion requests for background processing. Requests are queued and processed asynchronously, re...

Perplexity Search API

The Search API enables developers to perform ranked web searches with advanced filtering including domain, language, country, and date recency controls, returning structured res...

Perplexity Responses API

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, ...

Perplexity Embeddings API

The Embeddings API generates high-quality text embeddings for semantic search and retrieval, offering both standard embeddings for independent texts and contextualized embedding...

Perplexity Agent API

The Agent API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for agent.

Perplexity Async API

The Async API from Perplexity — 2 operation(s) for async.

Perplexity Contextualizedembeddings API

The Contextualizedembeddings API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for contextualizedembeddings.

Perplexity Embeddings API

The Embeddings API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.

Perplexity Models API

The Models API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for models.

Perplexity Search API

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

Perplexity Decisions API

The Decisions API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for decisions. Ask yes/no, multiple-choice, and rating questions about your content and get probabilities back (gateway preview).

Perplexity Sonar API

The Sonar API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for sonar.

Perplexity Admin API

The Admin API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for admin.

Perplexity Analytics API

The Analytics API from Perplexity — 2 operation(s) for analytics.

Perplexity Batches API

The Batches API from Perplexity — 6 operation(s) for batches.

Perplexity Skills API

The Skills API from Perplexity — 4 operation(s) for skills.

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Postman Collections 7

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Perplexity AI Agent API

POSTMAN

Perplexity AI Agent Async API

POSTMAN

Perplexity AI Agent Contextualizedembeddings API

POSTMAN

Perplexity AI Agent Embeddings API

POSTMAN

Perplexity AI Agent Models API

POSTMAN

Perplexity AI Agent Search API

POSTMAN

Perplexity AI Agent Sonar API

POSTMAN

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Perplexity AI Agent API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perplexity AI Agent Async API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perplexity AI Agent Contextualizedembeddings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perplexity AI Agent Embeddings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perplexity AI Agent Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perplexity AI Agent Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perplexity AI Agent Sonar API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perplexity AI API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Perplexity MCP servers

Remote MCP server at api.perplexity.ai over streamable HTTP requiring OAuth; 4 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Perplexity API pricing

Prices published by Perplexity, read 2026-10-07 from docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing.

Plan	Price
web_search (standard)	$0.0025 per invocation
web_search (Fast Search)	$0.001 per invocation
image_search	$0.0025 per successful invocation
fetch_url	$0.0005 per invocation
people_search	$0.005 per invocation
finance_search	$0.005 per invocation
sandbox	$0.03 per session
Search API	$5.00 per 1K requests

All 15 plans, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Agent API request limit Tier 0: 1 QPS
Agent API request limit Tier 1: 3 QPS
Agent API request limit Tier 2: 8 QPS

All 26 limits →

Billed by: invocation · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Perplexity Plans Pricing

15 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Perplexity Rate Limits

26 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Perplexity

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Perplexity Finops

FINOPS

Features 16

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Sonar at $1/$1 MTok + $5-$12/1K searches

Sonar Pro at $3/$15 MTok + $6-$14/1K searches

Sonar Reasoning Pro at $2/$8 MTok

Sonar Deep Research at $2/$8 MTok + $5/1K queries + $2/MTok citations

Web-grounded answers with inline citations

OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions

Search context size affects pricing

Default 50 req/min Sonar, 5 req/min Deep Research

Tiered spend limits starting at $5/mo

Citation tokens and reasoning tokens billed separately on Deep Research

Multi-step research synthesis

Filter by date, domain, recency

Structured output (JSON schema)

Image input on Sonar Pro

Streaming responses

Asynchronous batch endpoint (beta)

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Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Perplexity Streaming API (HTTP + Server-Sent Events)

AsyncAPI description of Perplexity's HTTP-based streaming surface. IMPORTANT TRANSPORT NOTE ------------------------ Perplexity does NOT expose a WebSocket (ws://, wss://) API. ...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Perplexity — asyncapi rules

9 rules · 1 errors 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

Perplexity — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 108

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Annotation

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiChatCompletionsRequest

26 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiPublicSearchResult

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiSearchPage

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiSearchRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiSearchResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AsyncApiChatCompletionsRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AsyncApiChatCompletionsResponse

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AsyncApiChatCompletionsResponseSummary

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AsyncProcessingStatus

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessage

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessage

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessageContentFileChunk

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessageContentImageChunk

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessageContentPDFChunk

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessageContentTextChunk

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessageContentVideoChunk

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessageRole

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Choice

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CompletionResponse

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CompletionResponseStatus

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CompletionResponseType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContentPart

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContentPartType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Contextualized Embedding Object

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Contextualized Embeddings Request

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Contextualized Embeddings Response

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cost

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Currency

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Date

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DateFilters

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Embedding Object

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Embeddings Request

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Embeddings Response

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Embeddings Usage

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorInfo

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExecutePythonStepDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FetchUrlContentStepDetails

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FetchUrlQueriesEvent

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FetchUrlResultsEvent

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FetchUrlResultsOutputItem

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FetchUrlTool

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FinanceSearchStepDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FinanceSearchTool

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FunctionCallInput

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FunctionCallOutputInput

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FunctionCallOutputItem

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FunctionTool

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HTTPValidationError

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImageResult

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Input

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InputContent

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InputContentPart

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InputItem

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InputMessage

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSONSchema

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSONSchemaFormat

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListAsyncApiChatCompletionsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListModelsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MessageOutputItem

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Model

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OutputItem

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OutputItemAddedEvent

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OutputItemDoneEvent

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReasoningConfig

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReasoningStartedEvent

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReasoningStep

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReasoningStoppedEvent

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponseCompletedEvent

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponseCreatedEvent

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponseFailedEvent

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponseFormat

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponseFormatJSONSchema

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponseFormatText

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponseInProgressEvent

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponsesCost

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponsesObjectType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponsesRequest

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponsesResponse

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponseStreamEvent

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponsesUsage

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RoleType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchDomainFilter

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchQueriesEvent

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchRecencyFilter

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResult

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResultsEvent

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResultsOutputItem

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchSource

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Status

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TextDeltaEvent

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TextDoneEvent

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tool

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ToolCall

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ToolCallDetails

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ToolCallFunction

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ToolUserLocation

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

URL

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UrlContent

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UsageInfo

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UserLocation

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ValidationError

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VideoURL

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WebSearchFilters

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WebSearchOptions

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WebSearchStepDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WebSearchTool

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Perplexity Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Perplexity Create Async Chat Completions Async Chat Completions Post Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Perplexity Listmodels Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Perplexity Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Perplexity Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Perplexity Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Perplexity Agentic Access

9 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Portal

Documentation 8

Reference material describing how the API behaves

AsyncAPI

APIReference

Documentation

Prompt Guide

Structured Outputs Guide

Structured Outputs Guide

Performance Guide

Performance Guide

Date Range Filter Guide

Date Range Filter Guide

Academic Filter Guide

Academic Filter Guide

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Agent Surfaces 6

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

AgenticAccess

MCP Server

LlmsText

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Spectral

DataModel

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

IntegrationEdges

Packages

PostmanWorkspace

SDKs

GitHubOrg

Python SDK

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Cookbook

Cookbook

Operate 10

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Product Change Log

RateLimits

Support

Forums

StatusPage

RoadMap

Discord

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Commercial 7

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

FinOps

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing Page

API Terms of Service

API Terms of Service

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Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 11

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

AgentCard

Hosts

Vendors

CapabilityMap

Models

Model Directory

Dashboard

API Playground

Best Practices

Crawlers

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: perplexity
name: Perplexity
description: Perplexity AI is an answer engine that delivers accurate answers to complex questions using large language models
  with real-time web search capabilities.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/perplexity.png
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- Search
- Agents
- Embeddings
- Research
- Agentic Commerce
- Foundation Models
tags_raw:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Large Language Models
- Search
- Agents
- Embeddings
- Research
- LLM
- Agentic Commerce
- Foundation Models
created: '2025-02-21'
modified: '2026-09-16'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: Perplexity AI
  email: support@perplexity.ai
  url: https://www.perplexity.ai
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/perplexity-rate-limits.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/perplexity-jsonschema-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/perplexity-asyncapi-spectral-rules.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/perplexity-asyncapi.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/perplexity-data-model.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/perplexity-changelog.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.perplexity.ai/security
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/perplexity-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/perplexity-problem-types.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/perplexity-llms.txt
- type: AgentCard
  url: a2a/perplexity-a2a.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/perplexity-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/perplexity-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/perplexity-hosts.yml
- type: IntegrationEdges
  url: integrations/perplexity-integration-edges.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/perplexity-vendors.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/perplexity-packages.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/perplexity-capability-edges.yml
  name: Perplexity Business Capability Map
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/perplexity-finops.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/perplexity-plans-pricing.yml
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/perplexity/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/perplexity-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/perplexity-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/perplexity-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/perplexity-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/perplexity-ai
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/chat-completions-post
  type: APIReference
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/agent-api/models
  type: Models
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/pricing
  type: Pricing
- url: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/terms-of-service
  type: TermsOfService
- url: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-policy
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- url: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog
  type: Blog
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/quickstart
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
  type: Pricing Page
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/models
  type: Model Directory
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog
  type: ChangeLog
- url: https://www.perplexity.ai/changelog
  type: Product Change Log
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/usage-tiers
  type: RateLimits
- url: https://perplexity.ai/account/api
  type: Signup
- url: https://www.perplexity.ai/account/api/group
  type: Dashboard
- url: https://perplexity.ai/account/api/playground/search
  type: API Playground
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/perplexity-sdk
  type: SDKs
- url: https://github.com/perplexityai
  type: GitHubOrg
- url: https://github.com/perplexityai/perplexity-py
  type: Python SDK
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/search-best-practices
  type: Best Practices
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/mcp-server
  type: MCP Server
- url: https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en
  type: Support
- url: https://community.perplexity.ai
  type: Forums
- url: https://www.perplexity.ai/api-platform
  type: Portal
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/llms.txt
  type: LlmsText
- url: https://www.perplexity.ai
  type: Website
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai
  type: Documentation
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  type: Authentication
- url: https://status.perplexity.com
  type: StatusPage
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/feature-roadmap
  type: RoadMap
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/cookbook
  type: Cookbook
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/prompt-guide
  type: Prompt Guide
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/structured-outputs
  type: Structured Outputs Guide
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/perplexity-sdk-performance
  type: Performance Guide
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/date-range-filter-guide
  type: Date Range Filter Guide
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/academic-filter-guide
  type: Academic Filter Guide
- url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers
  type: Crawlers
- url: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/perplexity-api-terms-of-service
  type: API Terms of Service
- url: https://discord.com/invite/perplexity-ai
  type: Discord
- url: https://x.com/perplexity_ai
  type: X
- type: Features
  data:
  - Sonar at $1/$1 MTok + $5-$12/1K searches
  - Sonar Pro at $3/$15 MTok + $6-$14/1K searches
  - Sonar Reasoning Pro at $2/$8 MTok
  - Sonar Deep Research at $2/$8 MTok + $5/1K queries + $2/MTok citations
  - Web-grounded answers with inline citations
  - OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions
  - Search context size affects pricing
  - Default 50 req/min Sonar, 5 req/min Deep Research
  - Tiered spend limits starting at $5/mo
  - Citation tokens and reasoning tokens billed separately on Deep Research
  - Multi-step research synthesis
  - Filter by date, domain, recency
  - Structured output (JSON schema)
  - Image input on Sonar Pro
  - Streaming responses
  - Asynchronous batch endpoint (beta)
  sources:
  - https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing
  updated: '2026-05-04'
apis:
- aid: perplexity:perplexity
  name: Perplexity
  description: What do you want to know?
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  tags: []
- aid: perplexity:async-chat-completions-api
  name: Perplexity Async Chat Completions API
  description: The Async Chat Completions API enables developers to submit long-running chat completion requests for background
    processing. Requests are queued and processed asynchronously, returning a unique identifier for tracking status through
    creation, processing, completion, or failure stages, making it ideal for deep research and computationally intensive queries.
  humanURL: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/async-chat-completions-post
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
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  - Asynchronous
  - Chat Completions
  - LLM
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  - Asynchronous
  - Chat Completions
  - Large Language Models
  properties:
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  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/async-chat-completions-get
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/perplexity-asyncapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:search-api
  name: Perplexity Search API
  description: The Search API enables developers to perform ranked web searches with advanced filtering including domain,
    language, country, and date recency controls, returning structured results with titles, URLs, snippets, and publication
    dates.
  humanURL: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/search-quickstart
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Filtering
  - Rankings
  - Search
  - Web Search
  tags_raw:
  - Filtering
  - Ranking
  - Search
  - Web Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/search-quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/search-post
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: Best Practices
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/search-best-practices
- aid: perplexity:responses-api
  name: Perplexity Responses API
  description: 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.
  humanURL: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/grounded-llm/responses/quickstart
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Agents
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - LLM
  - Research
  - Web Search
  tags_raw:
  - Agents
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Large Language Models
  - Research
  - Web Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/grounded-llm/responses/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/responses-post
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/perplexity-asyncapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:embeddings-api
  name: Perplexity Embeddings API
  description: The Embeddings API generates high-quality text embeddings for semantic search and retrieval, offering both
    standard embeddings for independent texts and contextualized embeddings for document chunks that share context, with support
    for Matryoshka representation learning for flexible dimensionality.
  humanURL: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/embeddings/quickstart
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  - Retrieval
  - Semantic Search
  - Vectors
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/embeddings/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/embeddings-post
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: Best Practices
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/embeddings/best-practices
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-agent-api
  name: Perplexity Agent API
  description: The Agent API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for agent.
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Agents
  tags_raw:
  - Agent
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-agent-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/chat-completions-post
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/perplexity-asyncapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-async-api
  name: Perplexity Async API
  description: The Async API from Perplexity — 2 operation(s) for async.
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Async
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-async-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/chat-completions-post
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/perplexity-asyncapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-contextualizedembeddings-api
  name: Perplexity Contextualizedembeddings API
  description: The Contextualizedembeddings API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for contextualizedembeddings.
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Contextualizedembeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-contextualizedembeddings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/chat-completions-post
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/perplexity-asyncapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-embeddings-api
  name: Perplexity Embeddings API
  description: The Embeddings API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/chat-completions-post
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/perplexity-asyncapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-models-api
  name: Perplexity Models API
  description: The Models API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for models.
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/chat-completions-post
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/perplexity-asyncapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-search-api
  name: Perplexity Search API
  description: The Search API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/chat-completions-post
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/perplexity-asyncapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-decisions-api
  name: Perplexity Decisions API
  description: The Decisions API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for decisions. Ask yes/no, multiple-choice, and rating questions
    about your content and get probabilities back (gateway preview).
  humanURL: https://docs.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Decisions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-decisions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-sonar-api
  name: Perplexity Sonar API
  description: The Sonar API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for sonar.
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Sonar
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-sonar-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/sonar/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/chat-completions-post
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perplexity/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/perplexity-asyncapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-admin-api
  name: Perplexity Admin API
  description: The Admin API from Perplexity — 1 operation(s) for admin.
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Admin
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-admin-api-openapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-analytics-api
  name: Perplexity Analytics API
  description: The Analytics API from Perplexity — 2 operation(s) for analytics.
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Analytics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-analytics-api-openapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-batches-api
  name: Perplexity Batches API
  description: The Batches API from Perplexity — 6 operation(s) for batches.
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Batches
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-batches-api-openapi.yml
- aid: perplexity:perplexity-skills-api
  name: Perplexity Skills API
  description: The Skills API from Perplexity — 4 operation(s) for skills.
  humanURL: https://www.perplexity.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.perplexity.ai
  tags:
  - Skills
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perplexity-skills-api-openapi.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v6

Perplexity API — frequently asked questions

Does Perplexity have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 17 APIs from Perplexity, including Perplexity, Perplexity Async Chat Completions API and Perplexity Search API, and 14 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Perplexity API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 12 OpenAPI specifications for Perplexity, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Perplexity API?

Perplexity documents its authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Perplexity Authentication.

How much does the Perplexity API cost?

Perplexity publishes its prices; its web_search (standard) plan is $0.0025 per invocation as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 15 pricing plans for Perplexity, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Perplexity have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Perplexity: Remote MCP server at api.perplexity.ai over streamable HTTP requiring OAuth; 4 tools listed.

Is the Perplexity API ready for AI agents?

Perplexity has a Kin Score of 65.7 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 67.7 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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