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Perplexity Search API

L'API de recherche web brute de Perplexity pour les développeurs : renvoie des résultats web classés avec titres, URL, extraits et dates provenant de l'index de Perplexity, avec des filtres par domaine, date et langue, pour l'ancrage d'agents IA et de pipelines RAG. Distincte de l'API de réponse Sonar.

Payant · API

Formules tarifaires

Standard Search$1.00/1,000 requests

Real-time web search results · Ranked results · Domain filtering · Multi-query support

Fast Search$1.00/1,000 requests

Lower latency results · Basic search parameters

Overview

L'API de recherche web brute de Perplexity pour les développeurs : renvoie des résultats web classés avec titres, URL, extraits et dates provenant de l'index de Perplexity, avec des filtres par domaine, date et langue, pour l'ancrage d'agents IA et de pipelines RAG. Distincte de l'API de réponse Sonar.

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Perplexity Search API

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Stork Quadrant

Becomes the API· 32/100

Replaceable as a UI, but kept alive as the API the agents call.

“This is a search index API competing against Google, Bing, Brave, and Exa — all of which have larger indexes, longer track records, and stronger developer trust. Perplexity doesn't own proprietary data; they crawl the same web. The only differentiator is index freshness and ranking quality, neither of which is a durable moat. This will get squeezed from above by Google and from below by cheaper alternatives.”

— Claude Sonnet 4.6, scored 2026-11-11

Defensibility · 0/100

  • Physical-world coupling
  • Regulatory moat
  • Network liquidity
  • Proprietary refreshing data
  • High-trust catastrophic workflows
  • Multi-party coordination
  • Brand / community / taste

An LLM alone could replace

  • Return ranked web results with titles, URLs, and snippets — Google Search API, Bing Search API, and Brave Search API all do this today
  • Filter results by domain, date, and language — standard capability in every major search API
  • Ground an LLM response with fresh web content — any search API plus an LLM prompt does this
  • Power a RAG pipeline with web retrieval — commodity pattern, no Perplexity-specific advantage

Agent-Readiness · 70/100

  • Verified MCP
  • Listed on agent surfaces— anthropic_directory, cursor
  • Usage-based pricing— pricing page heuristic match: https://docs.perplexity.ai/pricing
  • Headless agent auth— https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs (api-key auth)
  • Public OpenAPI— https://docs.perplexity.ai/openapi.json
  • Active changelog— https://docs.perplexity.ai/changelog (2026-11-10)
  • llms.txt— https://docs.perplexity.ai/llms.txt

How to defend

Stop selling raw search results and become the answer layer with verifiable citations that agents can trust — own the liability for factual grounding, not just the retrieval. Alternatively, build vertical indexes (legal, medical, financial) with proprietary crawl agreements that competitors can't replicate.

  • Ship an MCP server and list it on Stork — biggest single point gain (+25).