Perplexity API is best for small business owners or developers who want to add real-time, web-sourced AI answers directly into their own apps, tools, or workflows.
Get AI-generated answers backed by live web search results, with citations included
Use the Search API to pull ranked, real-time web results into your own product
Access third-party models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI) through one unified Agent API
Generate text embeddings for semantic search or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines
Pay-as-you-go pricing with no monthly fee — costs start around $0.006 per basic query
Available through AWS Marketplace for easier enterprise procurement and billing
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Sources: docs.perplexity.ai·docs.perplexity.ai·Verified April 2026
No integrations listed yet for Perplexity API.
The API delivers AI-generated answers grounded in real-time web search using Perplexity's Sonar models, with options for multi-step reasoning, deep research, and semantic embeddings. You can also route requests through third-party AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI via the Agent API.
Best for small businesses with a developer on staff who want to embed live, web-sourced AI answers into a custom app or internal tool. The biggest pro is that responses are grounded in real-time web data, so you avoid the stale-information problem common with standard LLMs. The main con is that this is a raw API — there's no point-and-click interface, so non-technical owners can't use it without developer help.
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Last researched: April 2026
