Perplexity Search API for Developers and Businesses launched on September 25, 2025, providing easy access to billions of web pages for startups, enterprises, and agent builders.
The platform offers high-speed web search, structured results, and practical filters, making it ideal for tech teams and AI developers who want to power new data-driven products and services.
Perplexity Search API: Powerful Search API Features
Perplexity’s Search API is designed to be flexible and developer-friendly, with a range of simple settings and rapid performance:
- Access hundreds of billions of live web pages.
- Regional targeting by ISO country code for local searches.
- Custom filters by date range, allowlist, or denylist of up to 20 domains.
- Send up to five queries at once for multi-topic research.
- Get 1 to 20 ranked results per call; the default is 10.
- Structured output includes title, URL, snippet, publication date, and last update details.
- Tune content extraction with max_tokens_per_page, default 1024.
- Academic mode prioritizes scholarly sources for research use.
- SDKs available for easy integration in Python and TypeScript.
- Pricing is $5 per 1,000 requests, no hidden token fees.
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Fast, Reliable, and Private
Perplexity emphasizes speed, relevance, and privacy in its API launch:
- Real-time indexing processes updates at high speed, with the freshest results available.
- Sub-document search highlights the best sections from pages—not just whole documents—for more accurate answers.
- Hybrid search combines keyword and semantic matching for smarter results.
- Output always includes clear citations, protecting creator credit and research quality.
- No customer search data is used to train Perplexity models, ensuring user privacy.
- Early adopters like Zoom and Copy.ai use the API; developer events are coming up in SF and London.
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