Perplexity Search API - Developers get full index power with instant accuracy
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The Perplexity Search API gives developers access to the same global-scale infrastructure that powers our public answer engine. With hundreds of billions of webpages indexed, it unlocks internet-wide knowledge through a simple, powerful API
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I love you've made search power so simple for developers. Access to such a massive index instantly feels like leveling up especially when accuracy comes without delay. This API could truly redefine integration possibilities.
Hey Hunters, 🚀
The Perplexity Search API is built to give developers direct access to a search index of billions of webpages, delivering the most accurate results in milliseconds. With Microsoft retiring Bing APIs, Perplexity is stepping up with a modern API built for the new AI era.
Here’s what makes it stand out:
✅ Completeness + freshness + speed – real-time crawling and indexing at scale (~200M daily queries)
✅ Fine-grained content understanding – AI dynamically parses and segments high-quality content
✅ Hybrid retrieval + ranking – multi-stage ranking ensures precise, relevant results
✅ Benchmark proven – consistently outperforms competitors on both speed and quality
✅ Blazing fast – median latency of 358ms, 150ms faster than the next-best, with 95th percentile under 800ms
Perplexity designed this with LLM-driven self-improvement loops, ensuring the index stays fresh, accurate, and optimized for AI agents and apps. It removes the old tradeoff between speed and accuracy — now you get both.
Really excited to see how developers will use this to power the next generation of AI agents, search-driven apps, and knowledge tools!
Congratulations to the Perplexity team on the launch! 🎉 I'm also curious about integration options for multi-agent AI workflows—how does the API scale with concurrent agent calls? Will there be granular analytics or dashboards for product teams to monitor relevance and usage?