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Perplexity API PlatformPerplexity API Platform
Power your products with unparalleled real-time, web-wide research and Q&A capabilities.
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Available APIs

Orchestrator APIOrchestrator API

Unified access to open-weight models hosted by Perplexity through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Agent APIAgent API

Get web-grounded answers with built-in citations in one call, or access third-party models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI with web search tools and effort levels.

Search APISearch API

Get ranked web results as JSON with extracted page text, for your own model or agent to read. No generated answer, billed per request.

Embeddings APIEmbeddings API

Generate high-quality embeddings for semantic search and RAG pipelines.

Decisions APIDecisions API

Get typed answers with probabilities for yes/no, multiple-choice, and rubric questions about text and images.