SERP API
Perplexity Search API
Ranked web results with extracted page text, billed per successful request from prepaid credits.
Plans
Values that apply to one plan. "Not stated" means the official pages do not say; it is not an estimate.
| Plan | Price | Included | Extra usage | Concurrency | Rate limit | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search API, standard web searchPay as you go | Not recorded | Not recorded |
Not recorded |
Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page | ||
| Search API, Fast SearchPay as you go | $1 per 1,000 requests15 |
Not recorded | Not recorded |
Not recorded |
Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page |
Applies to every plan
Recorded for the product or the provider; a plan-level value or a listed exception replaces it.
- Search response mode
- Real time6
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Collection notes
Only the Search API (POST /search) is modelled, as two usage prices (standard and Fast Search). Agent API tool prices and Sonar token prices on the same pricing page are different products. The Search API has no plan ladder, no monthly allowance and no free allowance on the pages read; credits are bought in advance.
Sources and notes
Each number points to the provider's own sentence, as it appears on the page on the date shown.
Billing unit: Search API charges for each successful POST /search request, not for each query in the request.
How the value follows from the source: The billing unit is one successful request, so one search is one unit.
A successful request with an array of up to five queries is one billing unit.
Invalid requests, rate-limited requests, and upstream failures are not billed.
A successful response is billed even when it returns no results.
Perplexity’s Search API returns real-time, ranked web results as structured data, with controls for domains, languages, regions, and extracted content.
Set country to an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code such as US , GB , DE , or JP to get more geographically relevant results.
No list of countries is published.
How the value follows from the source: The ranked web results are recorded as organic results.
The pages name no news or image results for this API.
Search API $5.00 Raw web search results with advanced filtering
How the value follows from the source: $5.00 per 1,000 successful requests.
POST /search 50 query units per second 50 query units
The limit counts query units; a request with one query uses one unit.
The Search API charges $1.00 per 1,000 Fast Search requests instead of $5.00 for standard web search.