Perplexity Search APIPerplexity AI
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About
The Parallel Search API is a web-search tool engineered specifically for AI agents, designed from the ground up to provide the most information-dense, token-efficient context for large-language models and automated workflows. Unlike traditional search engines optimized for human browsing, this API supports declarative semantic objectives, allowing agents to specify what they want rather than merely keywords. It returns ranked URLs and compressed excerpts tailored for model context windows, enabling higher accuracy, fewer search steps, and lower token cost per result. Its infrastructure includes a proprietary crawler, live-index updates, freshness policies, domain-filtering controls, and SOC 2 Type 2 security compliance. The API is built to fit seamlessly within agent workflows: developers can control parameters like maximum characters per result, select custom processors, adjust output size, and orchestrate retrieval directly into AI reasoning pipelines.
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About
Perplexity has launched the Perplexity Search API, giving developers access to the same global-scale indexing and retrieval infrastructure that powers Perplexity’s public answer engine. The API indexes hundreds of billions of webpages and is optimized for the unique demands of AI workflows; it breaks documents into fine-grained subunits so that responses return highly relevant snippets already ranked against the original query, reducing preprocessing and improving downstream performance. To maintain freshness, the index processes tens of thousands of updates every second using an AI-driven content understanding module that dynamically parses web content and iteratively self-improves via real-time query feedback. The API returns rich, structured responses suitable for both AI agents and traditional apps, rather than limited, document-level outputs. Alongside the API, Perplexity is releasing an SDK, an open source evaluation framework, and detailed research into their design.
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Audience
Developers and AI labs interested in a solution providing web retrieval, semantic context and optimized token-use for large-language-model reasoning
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AI teams in search of a solution providing real-time web search and retrieval capabilities to power agents, knowledge systems, or advanced information applications
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Pricing
$5 per 1,000 requests
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Company InformationParallel
United States
parallel.ai/products/search
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Company InformationPerplexity AI
Founded: 2022
United States
www.perplexity.ai/es/hub/blog/introducing-the-perplexity-search-api
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Integrations
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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GPT-4.1
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Mimasa AI
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Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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OpenAI
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Parallel Decisions API
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Portable Computer by Perplexity
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Python
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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GPT-4.1
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Mimasa AI
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Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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OpenAI
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Parallel Decisions API
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Portable Computer by Perplexity
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