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Perplexity API: what it sells, price and AI features

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

Updated . Launches and events 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.

Site
docs.perplexity.ai
Founded
2022
Category
Search APIs
Status
Active

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    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.

    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

    Sources: docs.perplexity.ai, docs.perplexity.ai and en.wikipedia.org.

    Perplexity API on the social monitoring map

Launches and dated events, newest first

  1. Introducing the Perplexity Search API

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

    Source: Perplexity blog. From the social monitoring map.

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Cite as: Newsprint, "Perplexity API: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/perplexity-api/, updated 2026-11-11

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