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Perplexity API pricing

Perplexity's developer platform sells usage-priced APIs for model access (Agent and Orchestrator), web search, embeddings and structured yes/no decisions.

Large language modelsPriced per minuteSelf-serve + sales

Visit Perplexity APIPrices checked Oct 29, 2026

How much does Perplexity API cost?

Usage price from $0/minute

Free plan: Not stated
Usage price: $0/minute
Enterprise: Contact sales

Read from docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from

Watch out for

Going over the Agent API sandbox allowance costs $0 per sdk search request. Included: 0 .

How you buy and get started

Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Get Started, Contact Sales Team, Perplexity API Platform on AWS Marketplace

Sign up: Sign up through the API console
Setup: Not stated
When sales steps in: Custom pricing and dedicated support via enterprise inquiry form

What Perplexity API does

The pricing page lists token-based rates for third-party models via the Agent API, per-request fees for tools and the Search API, and per-token rates for embeddings and the Decisions API. Credits can be bought through AWS Marketplace, and custom enterprise pricing is available through a sales form.

Good for: Developers and teams building AI agents, search-grounded apps, RAG pipelines and classification workflows who want pay-as-you-go API pricing.
Channels: API, MCP server, CLI, SDK, AWS Marketplace
Main product: Perplexity API Platform (Agent API, Orchestrator API, Search API, Embeddings API, Decisions API)
Also includes: Agent API with third-party models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Z.AI, Moonshot AI and NVIDIA, Orchestrator API billed per token with no per-request fees, Search API with standard and Fast Search, Embeddings API (standard and contextualized), Decisions API, Agent API tools: web_search, image_search, fetch_url, people_search, finance_search, sandbox
Connects to: AWS Marketplace, OpenAI-compatible API, Perplexity API MCP, Perplexity Computer MCP
Public API: Yes
MCP server: Yes

Public API accessUnderstand Perplexity API pricing, model rates, request fees, billing setup, and rate-limit references.
Long context windowNot stated
Fine-tuning supportNot stated
Tool and function callingWhen using tools with the Agent API:
Image and audio inputThe Decisions API answers yes/no, multiple-choice, and scored questions about text and images with calibrated
SOC 2 complianceNot stated
Zero data retention optionNot stated
VPC or on-prem deploymentNot stated

The same 8 checks appear on every tool in Large language models. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.

Security and your data

Question	Their answer	Where it says so
Trains AI on your data?	Not stated
HIPAA (signs a BAA)	Not stated
SOC 2	Not stated
GDPR	Not stated
CCPA	Not stated
PCI	Not stated
ISO 27001	Not stated
Single sign-on	Not stated
Trust center	Not stated

Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.

Every plan

Plan	Monthly	Billed yearly	Included	Over the allowance	Where it says so
Orchestrator APIper token, model-specific rates	–	–	–	–	"Orchestrator API usage is billed per token at each model’s published rates — there are no "
Agent API web_search (standard)per invocation	$0per minute	–	–	–	"\| `web_search` (standard) \| $0.0025 per invocation \| Standard web search with `search_"
Agent API web_search (Fast Search)per invocation	$0per minute	–	–	–	"\| `web_search` (Fast Search) \| $0.001 per invocation \| The same tool with `search_type"
Agent API image_searchper successful invocation	$0per minute	–	–	–	"\| `image_search` \| $0.0025 per successful invocation \|"
Agent API fetch_urlper invocation	$0per minute	–	–	–	"\| `fetch_url` \| $0.0005 per invocation \|"
Agent API people_searchper invocation	$0.01per minute	–	–	–	"\| `people_search` \| $0.005 per invocation \|"
Agent API finance_searchper invocation	$0.01per minute	–	–	–	"\| `finance_search` \| $0.005 per invocation \|"
Agent API sandboxper session (up to 20 minutes)	$0.03per sdk search request	–	–	$0/sdk search request	"\| `sandbox` \| $0.03 per session \|"
Search API (standard)per request ($5.00 per 1K requests)	$0.01per minute	–	–	–	"search type: "fast" . $1.00 per 1,000 invocations. see fast search /docs/search/fast-searc"
Search API (Fast Search)per request ($1.00 per 1K requests)	$0per minute	–	–	–	"with the agent api: tool price description --- --- --- web search standard $0.0025 per inv"
Embeddings pplx-embed-v1-0.6bper 1M tokens	$0per minute	–	–	–	"\| `pplx-embed-v1-0.6b` \| 1024 \| $0.004 \|"
Embeddings pplx-embed-v1-4bper 1M tokens	$0.03per minute	–	–	–	"\| `pplx-embed-v1-4b` \| 2560 \| $0.03 \|"
Contextualized Embeddings pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6bper 1M tokens	$0.01per minute	–	–	–	"\| `pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b` \| 1024 \| $0.008 \|"
Contextualized Embeddings pplx-embed-context-v1-4bper 1M tokens	$0.05per minute	–	–	–	"\| `pplx-embed-context-v1-4b` \| 2560 \| $0.05 \|"
Decisions API pplx-decider-v1.2per 1M input tokens	$0.02per minute	–	–	–	"\| `pplx-decider-v1.2` \| $0.02 \| Free \| None \|"
Decisions API pplx-decider-flash-v1.2per 1M input tokens	$0.01per minute	–	–	–	"\| `pplx-decider-flash-v1.2` \| $0.01 \| Free \| None \|"
Enterprise	Quote	–	–	–	"Fill out our enterprise inquiry form to discuss custom pricing, dedicated support, and ent"

Fine print

Billing increment: Search API bills per successful POST /search request; a request with up to five queries is one billing unit. Sandbox bil
Billed beyond usage: Not stated
Contract: Not stated
Refunds: Not stated
Auto renew: Not stated
Price change notice: Not stated

"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.