Perplexity has launched its new Search API, giving startups, enterprises, and agent builders direct access to billions of web pages and state-of-the-art search features.
This update is designed to make it easier for developers to pull real-time, relevant web data for all kinds of applications.
The Search API is public, with simple SDKs and pricing, positioning Perplexity as a top choice for those building data-driven products.
Perplexity Search API: Key Features for Developers
The Perplexity Search API brings a suite of tools that make searching the entire web fast and flexible:
- Access hundreds of billions of pages using a single API platform.
- Use regional filters by ISO country code, date range filters, and allow or deny specific domains (up to 20 per request).
- Bundle up to five queries in one request for multi-topic searches.
- Retrieve 1 to 20 results per call, with 10 as the default.
- Control content extraction with the max_tokens_per_page setting, default at 1024 tokens.
- Responses return title, URL, snippet, publication date, and last update information.
- Academic mode prioritizes scholarly sources for researchers and students.
- SDKs for Python and TypeScript simplify integration; API rate limits adjust with spend.
- Simple pricing—$5 per 1,000 requests with no extra token fees.
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Fast, Accurate, and Secure
Perplexity’s Search API delivers web-scale results with lower cost and robust privacy policies:
- Real-time indexing keeps results fresh and updates millions of pages each second.
- Sub-document precision ranks the best parts of every page, not just entire documents.
- Hybrid keyword and semantic search powers both conversational and classic queries.
- Results include rich citations, supporting research and high-trust applications.
- Early adopters like Zoom, Copy.ai, and Doximity already see productivity gains.
- No customer data is used to train models, ensuring privacy and trust.
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