Search is Perplexity's language model. A web search API that returns sourced, citation-backed results powering Perplexity's answer engine.
Specifications
Canonical IDperplexity-search
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorPerplexityPerplexity
Providers
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Query
$ / query
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Perplexity
perplexity/search
$0.0050

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Model IDs

perplexity-search
perplexity/search