# Perplexity

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/perplexity/  
**Website:** https://www.perplexity.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 12

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

## Kin Score — 56.4 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 56.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 53.7 |
| Contract Quality | 68.9 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 50.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 69.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 40.2 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (12)

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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Perplexity Agentic Access** — 9 operations · 6 acting

## Security (3)

- **Perplexity Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Perplexity Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Perplexity Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Perplexity Plans Pricing**

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/perplexity/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.