Perplexity API pricing: Search API, Agent API and tools
Checked Nov 10, 2026 on Perplexity API’s official pages (sources below). Prices change often: confirm with the provider before you buy.
The Perplexity API offers a Search API (ranked web results as JSON), an Agent API with third-party models and web tools, an Orchestrator API, and embeddings.
Figures below are quoted from docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing as read on Nov 10, 2026. Prices change: confirm on Perplexity API's page before you buy.
Search API
- Search API
- Price per 1K requests$5.00
- What you getRanked web results as JSON with extracted page text; no token billing
- Search API with Fast Search
- Price per 1K requests$1.00
- What you getLower-latency results in the same format (search_type: "fast")
Billed per successful POST /search request; a request with up to five queries is one billing unit. Invalid, rate-limited and failed requests are not billed.
Agent API tool prices
- web_search (standard)
- Price$0.0025 per invocation ($2.50 per 1,000)
- web_search (Fast Search)
- Price$0.001 per invocation ($1.00 per 1,000)
- image_search
- Price$0.0025 per successful invocation
- fetch_url
- Price$0.0005 per invocation
- people_search
- Price$0.005 per invocation
- finance_search
- Price$0.005 per invocation
- sandbox
- Price$0.03 per session (20-minute billing window)
Agent API and Orchestrator API model usage is billed per token at each model's published rates; tool costs are separate from model token costs.
Perplexity API pricing FAQ
How much does the Perplexity Search API cost?
$5 per 1,000 successful requests, or $1 per 1,000 with Fast Search. There are no token charges.
How is the Perplexity Agent API priced?
Tokens are billed at each third-party model's published rates, plus a per-invocation fee for tools such as web_search ($0.0025) and fetch_url ($0.0005).
Where do these Perplexity API prices come from?
Perplexity API's own pricing page (https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing), read on Nov 10, 2026. We do not estimate bills or add up costs across providers.
Sources (official pages, read Nov 10, 2026)
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