# Perplexity API: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/perplexity-api/
Covers: Sept. 25, 2025
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Perplexity API: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/perplexity-api/, updated 2026-11-11

> Perplexity API is on the social monitoring map. We record 1 dated launch or event for it. The latest is dated Sept. 25, 2025.

Search API (raw ranked results) and Agent API (web\_search, people\_search, fetch\_url tools) from Perplexity. search\_domain\_filter allows or denies up to 20 domains; no social-specific mode documented. Source: [docs.perplexity.ai](https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/overview).

## Facts

- Site: [docs.perplexity.ai](https://docs.perplexity.ai/)
- Founded: [2022](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity_AI)
- Category: Search APIs
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-perplexity-api)

Search API (raw ranked results) and Agent API (web\_search, people\_search, fetch\_url tools) from Perplexity. search\_domain\_filter allows or denies up to 20 domains; no social-specific mode documented. Source: [docs.perplexity.ai](https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/overview).

- Category: Search APIs
- Price: Search API $5.00 per 1,000 requests; Fast Search $1.00 per 1,000. Agent API tool fees: web\_search $2.50/1k ($1/1k fast), people\_search $5/1k, fetch\_url $0.0005 each; model tokens extra.
- Platforms: News and Reddit
- Scale: Enterprise incumbent: nine-figure revenue or public-company scale (Perplexity reported annualised revenue above USD 450M in March 2026 (FT) and billions in funding.)
- Founded: [2022](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity_AI)

Sources: [docs.perplexity.ai](https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/overview), [docs.perplexity.ai](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing) and [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity_AI).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Introducing the Perplexity Search API

Launch, Sept. 25, 2025. Raw search API on Perplexity's index opened to developers.

Source: [Perplexity blog](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-the-perplexity-search-api). From [the social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-perplexity-api).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology