Upcoming features and improvements for the Perplexity API designed to enhance your development experience.
Our roadmap is shaped by our users - have a feature in mind? Submit your suggestion here and help us build the future of AI together.
Video Upload Capabilities
Multimodal video processing - August 2025
We’re expanding our multimodal capabilities to include video uploads, targeting availability by the end of August 2025.
This feature will enable:
Supported formats will include common video file types (MP4, MOV, AVI) with reasonable file size limits for API efficiency.
This capability will unlock new use cases in content moderation, educational analysis, media research, and automated video summarization.
File Search & Connectors
Expanded data access
Expanding your ability to access and process information:
This feature will allow your applications to tap into a broader range of data sources for more comprehensive insights.
Expanded Structured Outputs Support
Enhanced response formatting
We’re expanding our structured outputs capabilities:
sonar
and sonar-reasoning
)This expansion will make it easier to build applications that require consistent, structured data from our API responses.
Documentation Overhaul
More comprehensive resources
We’re committed to making our documentation a truly exceptional resource:
These improvements will help you get up to speed faster and make the most of our API capabilities.
Increased Rate Limits
Support for high-volume applications
We’re scaling our infrastructure to support significantly higher request volumes:
This enhancement will ensure our API can grow alongside your application’s user base and processing needs.
Better Error Handling
Clearer troubleshooting
Improving our error framework:
This will reduce debugging time and help you understand and address issues more efficiently.
Multimedia Capabilities
Beyond text processing
Broadening the types of content you can work with:
These features will enable new use cases and richer interactions within your applications, allowing you to reference specific web content, upload documents for analysis, and build more comprehensive research workflows.
Search as its own API
Standalone search functionality
We’re working on exposing search results as a standalone API/product, separate from the end-to-end integration with the LLM.
This feature will allow developers to:
This will provide greater flexibility for developers who only need search functionality.
Context Management / Memory
Improved context handling
We’re addressing the limitations of managing context in API calls by introducing new context management features.
Key improvements include:
These enhancements will make it easier to build applications that require persistent context without hitting technical limitations.
This roadmap represents our current development priorities. Features will be released incrementally, with some becoming available in the coming months and others planned for later in the year.
We’ll announce new feature availability through our changelog and via email notifications to API users.