Perplexity API Platform
Our verdict
If your app or agent needs fresh web answers with citations, the Perplexity API is a quick way to get them without building search yourself. Good for research features and agent tools.
- Who it's for
- Builders adding live web research to apps or agents
- Leverage
- Web-grounded answers without a search stack
- Effort
- Medium
- Date added
What it does
The Perplexity API Platform offers Search, Agent and Embeddings APIs (among others) for real-time, web-wide research and Q&A inside your own products.
How builders use it
- Give your agent a 'search the web' tool backed by the API.
- Add a research or 'ask' feature to a product.
- Run scheduled queries to monitor topics.
What to expect
Live, cited web context available to your code.
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