Specialist app
Perplexity API
/perplexity · San Francisco, USA · est. 2022
Data: mediumVisit provider ↗
Key facts
- Perplexity API is a specialist app headquartered in San Francisco, USA, founded 2022.
- Exposes an OpenAI-compatible API, so existing OpenAI SDK code can target it by changing the base URL.
- Blended reference price is $1.00 per 1M tokens (in $1.00 / out $1.00).
- Reference latency 650 ms TTFT at 80 tok/s throughput, with 99.5% reference uptime.
- Editorial reputation index 82/100 from 410 weighted signals; 90-day trend stable.
Specification
- Category
- Specialist app
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
- Founded
- 2022
- Model access
- Open + proprietary
- Flagship / served
- Sonar (search-grounded)
- Reference open model
- Search-augmented open models
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Yes
- Blended $/1M
- $1.00 seed
Strengths & trade-offs
Strength
Built-in web-search grounding with citations.
Trade-off
Optimized for search Q&A rather than general serving.
Profile reviewed 2026-07-10. Confidence for this listing:medium — Figure based on public sources but not re-confirmed on the exact review date; may drift.Not affiliated with Perplexity API. ← Back to directory