The Perplexity API platform is now a full-stack, model-agnostic API platform for building agents.
It replaces your model provider, search layer, and embeddings, built on the same infrastructure that powers Perplexity.
The Perplexity API platform consists of four APIs with one API key.
Agent API — orchestrate models for multi-step workflows
Search API — real-time web context
Embeddings API — retrieval at scale
Sandbox API — code execution for agents (coming soon)
Perplexity Agent API is a managed runtime for building agentic workflows with integrated search, tool execution, and multi-model orchestration.
Swap between the latest frontier models, configure curated presets, tool access, step limits, and token budgets, all from one endpoint.
Search API is SOTA on all industry benchmarks including SimpleQA and SEAL.
It gives developers direct access to the same index that powers Perplexity with 200B+ URLs, refreshed in real time.
Use it to call real-time information with citations inside your own apps and agents.
Two weeks ago, we released two new SOTA embedding models.
Our Embeddings API was specifically designed for large-scale, efficient retrieval.
pplx-embed-v1-4B leads MTEB retrieval, ConTEB, and our internal benchmarks against 30M+ documents. Read more:
Our Sandbox API will be available as a tool within Agent API, allowing the orchestration runtime to delegate to deterministic code execution.
Sandbox API makes the same execution environment we use internally available as a standalone service for developers.
Get started with our developer docs:
docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-s…
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