Perplexity
Real-time web search, web-grounded answers and research for agents and apps.
Updated Sep 27, 2026
Overview
Perplexity's API platform brings real-time, web-wide research and Q&A to your products. The Search API returns ranked web results; the Agent API answers and researches with web search using models from several providers; the Router and Embeddings APIs cover open-weight models and embeddings. Sonar Chat Completions was replaced by the Agent API and reached its end of support on September 27, 2026.
The hosted MCP server offers perplexity_search, perplexity_ask,
perplexity_research and perplexity_reason. It signs in with your Perplexity
account and bills tool calls to the API organization you pick, which you must
administer. The pplx CLI returns Search API results and page snippets as
JSON.
Workflows
Workflows that use Perplexity's tools.
Tools
What agents can reach at Perplexity.
Ask a questionAnswers a question from current web sources with inline citations, tuned for quick facts and short summaries.
- Run deep research
Researches a question across many web sources with extended reasoning and returns a thorough answer with citations.
- Get page snippets
Returns only the passages of one or more web pages that are relevant to a query, as JSON.
- Search people
Returns web results about professionals who match a name, role, company or location, with titles, URLs and snippets naming their jobs and employers.
- Search the web
Returns ranked web results for a query, each with its title, URL, snippet and dates, optionally limited to domains or a date range.