Perplexity Search API Launches: Powerful Features in 2026

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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