POST
Perplexity Search API
/v1/run/perplexity.search
Ask Perplexity a web-grounded question and receive an answer with source citations.
- Category searchRequests / mo -Routing 2 lanes · auto failover
Provider network
Providers ranked by traffic
click a provider for traffic and endpoints · routing stays automaticRequest
Gateway request
discovered operation
Router
↓→
Providers · 2
Badger8 served100.00% uptime12334ms p50$3.60/1k reqflat
Octopus1 served100.00% uptime12032ms p50up to$10.60/1k req$0.0105 / resultMetered per result returned$0.00006 base + $0.0105 per resultcapped at $0.0106 per request1 result$0.010562+ results$0.0106 capYou are charged for what comes back. Lower the limit to pay less - the headline is the worst case, never a surprise.
↳ Calls hit the first lane first; on timeout or 5xx we retry down the ladder. Fallback order: Badger → Octopus
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