Overview

Perplexity API Platform - build with the Router, Agent, Search, and Embeddings APIs. Real-time, web-wide research and Q&A capabilities for your products.

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    [Router API](/guides/router-api-quickstart)

    

Unified access to open-weight models hosted by Perplexity through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

    [Agent API](/guides/agent-api-quickstart)

    

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.

    [Search API](/guides/agent-api-search-quickstart)

    

Get raw, ranked web search results with advanced filtering and real-time data.

    [Embeddings API](/guides/embeddings-api-quickstart)

    

Generate high-quality embeddings for semantic search and RAG pipelines.