# Overview

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Power your products with unparalleled real-time, web-wide research and Q\&A capabilities.

Quickstart Guide
Getting started is simple and fast—make your first API call within minutes.

[Get Started](/guides/getting-started-quickstart)
[Get Your API Key](https://console.perplexity.ai)

## Available APIs

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Unified access to open-weight models hosted by Perplexity through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
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Get web-grounded answers with built-in citations in one call, or access third-party models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI with web search tools and presets.
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Get raw, ranked web search results with advanced filtering and real-time data.
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Generate high-quality embeddings for semantic search and RAG pipelines.
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## Related pages

- [Admin & Management](./admin-management-index.md)
- [Agent API](./agent-api-2-index.md)
- [Agent API](./agent-api-index.md)
- [Analytics API](./analytics-api-index.md)
- [Authentication](./authentication-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Cookbook](./cookbook-2-index.md)
- [Embeddings API](./embeddings-api-2-index.md)
- [Embeddings API](./embeddings-api-index.md)
- [Getting Started](./getting-started-index.md)

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